The Early Days of Thomas Whittemore: An Autobiography

Whittemore's own story of his first twenty-five years: a poor Boston boyhood, apprenticeship to a bootmaker, conversion under the preaching of Hosea Ballou, and his rapid rise from shop bench to pulpit to the editorship of the Trumpet. Written with the energy and self-assurance that marked everything he did, it complements Adams's posthumous memoir (also in this collection) with the inside view — and is one of the liveliest accounts we have of how early Universalism recruited its leaders from the artisan class.

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