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This collection of essays explores the two libel cases (criminal and civil) prosecuted by Rev. Samuel Marsden against John Thomas Campbell in 1817, following the publication of the Philo Free letter. The event is examined in the various contexts of Imperial and Australasian Colonial History, Marsden historiography and biography, Australian legal history, South Seas missions history, the history of Australian indigenous missions, the freedom of the press, and normative ethics.
Marsden's concern for Christian mission was not only one of the reasons Marsden was libelled, but it was also a key motivation for him to utilise and champion such freedoms to defend his own reputation and that of Christian mission.
The issues raised by this even 200 years ago—such as freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom to practice one's religion and persuade others to do the same—have clear implications for those in contemporary Australasia who wish to preserve such freedoms.
Peter Bolt is the Director of Academic Strategy at the Australian University College of Divinity.
Malcolm Falloon is a New Zealand Anglican minister and the Associate National Diretor of the NZ Christian Network.
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