| Book Review | The Michigan Historical Review, 33.1

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Janet Sjaarda Sheeres. Son of Secession: Douwe J. Vander Werp. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2006. Pp. 231. Appendix. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Paper, $25.00.
The Reverend Douwe J. Vander Werp (1811–1876) was one of the people who helped sustain the Dutch-American colony Albertus C. Van Raalte founded in west Michigan in 1846. From the moment he arrived in 1864 to pastor a church near Holland, Vander Werp began to influence the local culture through his work as a preacher, editor, polemicist, teacher, and denominational leader.	. . .

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