Autobiography of Rev. Abel C. Thomas

Recollections of persons, incidents, and places from a ministry spent in Philadelphia, New York, and Lowell. In Lowell, Thomas organized improvement circles among the young women of the cotton mills, from which grew the famous Lowell Offering, the first magazine written entirely by factory operatives. Genial and anecdotal, his autobiography catches the texture of antebellum Universalist life — debates, conventions, editorial wars, and friendships — as no formal history does.

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