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Leonard Bacon: New England Reformer and Antislavery Moderate. By Hugh Davis. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. xvi, 293 pp. $60.00, isbn 0-8071-2287-4.)

Neglected in recent histories of antebellum reform are the liberals of the day. Towering figures in their own time, such men as Lyman Beecher, Edward Everett, and Leonard Bacon maintained their influence into the 1860s and, for Bacon, well beyond. Hugh Davis's biography of Bacon offers a useful reminder that the center of liberal Protestant culture in the antebellum North not only held firm but strengthened during the sectional crisis and the Civil War. . . .


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