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The memoir of Daniel Parker (1781-1861) is an invaluable primary source for post-revolutionary and antebellum American history, an itinerant preacher's account of the frontier's diverse and evolving religious landscape, and an engaging human story.
List of contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Editor’s Introduction
Note on Text
Chapter 1: On Our Arrival West of the Mountains
Chapter 2: This Cross-Bearing Company
Chapter 3: It Might Be a Benefit to Travel
Chapter 4: A Kind of Agreeable Dread
Chapter 5: The Whole Race of Adam Would Be Restored
Chapter 6: My Best Earthly Friend
Chapter 7: A Great and Growing Evil
Epilogue
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the author
Daniel Parker (1781-1861) was among the early migrants from New England to settle in Ohio. He was a preacher of the millenarian Halcyon Church and later a traveling washing machine salesman before settling on a lifelong career as an itinerant Universalist evangelist. He was also an abolitionist and cofounder of the racially integrated Clermont Academy.
Summary
The memoir of Daniel Parker (1781–1861) is an invaluable primary source for post-revolutionary and antebellum American history, an itinerant preacher’s account of the frontier’s diverse and evolving religious landscape, and an engaging human story.
