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American Tract Society
Founded in the early 1800s, this evangelical publishing society helped spread Christian tracts, books, and moral literature on a huge scale in the United States. Its work became closely tied to the rise of mass religious print culture in the 19th century.
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Step by Step; Or, Tidy's Way to Freedom
by American Tract Society
Select Temperance Tracts
by American Tract Society
Scenes in Switzerland
by American Tract Society
About the author
The American Tract Society was founded in New York City in 1825 through the merger of earlier tract societies from New York and New England. Rather than being a single author, it was a religious publishing organization created to produce and distribute short Christian works, devotional reading, and other evangelical literature.
In the 19th century, the society became one of the best-known religious publishers in the United States. It used printing networks, agents, and colporteurs to circulate millions of publications, helping shape popular Protestant reading culture and reform-minded religious life.
Because this is an organization rather than an individual writer, a standard author portrait is not really available. Public pages about the society more often show buildings or historical materials than a clear personal likeness.