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BAPTISTS ON THE AMERICAN FRONTIER

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A History of Ten Baptist Churches, first published within the 1820s by writer John Taylor, a pioneer Baptist farmer-preacher, has long been recognized as an indispensible source for first-hand details about the religious life of the early American frontier. In his history Taylor recounted the experiences of Baptists in Virginia who championed the reason for religious liberty. He then chronicled the movement of many of those Baptists, including himself, to the wilderness of central and northern Kentucky where their church communities both struggled and flourished.
Taylor’s vivid accounts are filled with colorful descriptions of church life, including revivalistic experiences and doctrinal debates; the challenges of being a minister, including dealing with meager resources and mediating disagreements; and the issues of rural living, including the catch 22 situation of slavery and property disputes.
Chester Raymond Young has triumph over the difficulties faced by the up to date reader in deciphering the anacronisms, obscurities, and idiosyncrasies of Taylor’s narrative.
Young’s edition, the first ever annotated one, includes a logical division of Taylor’s sentences and paragraphs, a full bibliography of relevant historical works, tables outlining frontier religious rhetoric, and an extensive system of annotation that clarifies and corrects Taylor’s account.

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