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Frederick G. Strickland

19th-century American Christian socialist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 25, 2025
Entity authorityQ24975495 ↗
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Frederick Guy Strickland was a 19th-century American Christian socialist. He was an activist in the Social Democratic Party from its inception and was friends with Eugene V. Debs.

Beliefs

Strickland believed in social service as a method of redefining the Christian religion, as a method of "Social Redemption", under the presumption that it could become the "most evangelical religion". He would lecture at colleges to express his views, with at least the Religious Association of Defiance College being one.

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“Frederick G. Strickland” enters the record as 19th-century American Christian socialist. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Frederick, Strickland and 19th-century can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Frederick G. Strickland” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.