| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Hugh Davis. Leonard Bacon: New England Reformer and Antislavery Moderate. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1998. Pp. xi, 293. $60.00.

Leonard Bacon (1802–1881) has received scant attention in the standard texts of American religious history, and he deserves better. Hugh Davis has corrected this oversight. This biography also manages to make a fine contribution to studies of the nineteenth-century antislavery struggle, developments within Protestantism, the movements away from strict Calvinism, and the events leading up to the Civil War. Bacon began life on the Michigan frontier as the first of seven children of Congregational missionary parents. Their financial support dwindling, the parents relocated to Connecticut, and Bacon was eventually able to attend Yale College on a scholarship. There he formed close friendships with men who would become important and remain his friends for life. After graduation in 1820, Bacon was accepted at Andover Theological Seminary, where he studied under Moses Stuart and Leonard Woods, both eminent teachers. Here he blossomed, and after Congregational ordination in 1825 he was called to the prestigious Center Church in New Haven, a daunting prospect for a young man of twenty-two. Here Bacon would be pastor for the next forty-three years. . . .

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