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.David Torbett is an associate professor of religion and history at Marietta College in Ohio. He is the author of Theology and Slavery: Charles Hodge and Horace Bushnell.

“David Torbett has mined nearly every piece of historical ore out of The Autobiography of Daniel Parker. His research is flawless, his interpretation insightful. This book is an important read for anyone wishing to understand the development of abolitionist thought in the Midwest.” - Brian L. Hackett, associate professor of public history, Northern Kentucky University “David Torbett’s research for this project has been nothing short of staggeringly impressive. He has immersed himself in the major currents of religious history, especially the history of Universalism, but also topics such as the Mormon church and sectarianism. He shows broad knowledge on the background of colonization, anti-slavery and abolitionism, other reform movements including temperance and women’s rights as well as the ‘cult of true womanhood,’ Native American history, the history of the War of 1812, aspects of travel, frontier, and the history of inventions. His astoundingly extensive notes bear witness to a scholar determined to complete thorough and meticulous research and thus give proper context to the autobiography.” - Ann Lee Bressler, author of The Universalist Movement in America, 1770–1880

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsEditor’s IntroductionNote on TextChapter 1: On Our Arrival West of the MountainsChapter 2: This Cross-Bearing CompanyChapter 3: It Might Be a Benefit to TravelChapter 4: A Kind of Agreeable DreadChapter 5: The Whole Race of Adam Would Be RestoredChapter 6: My Best Earthly FriendChapter 7: A Great and Growing EvilEpilogueNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

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.David Torbett is an associate professor of religion and history at Marietta College in Ohio. He is the author of Theology and Slavery: Charles Hodge and Horace Bushnell.

“David Torbett has mined nearly every piece of historical ore out of The Autobiography of Daniel Parker. His research is flawless, his interpretation insightful. This book is an important read for anyone wishing to understand the development of abolitionist thought in the Midwest.” - Brian L. Hackett, associate professor of public history, Northern Kentucky University “David Torbett’s research for this project has been nothing short of staggeringly impressive. He has immersed himself in the major currents of religious history, especially the history of Universalism, but also topics such as the Mormon church and sectarianism. He shows broad knowledge on the background of colonization, anti-slavery and abolitionism, other reform movements including temperance and women’s rights as well as the ‘cult of true womanhood,’ Native American history, the history of the War of 1812, aspects of travel, frontier, and the history of inventions. His astoundingly extensive notes bear witness to a scholar determined to complete thorough and meticulous research and thus give proper context to the autobiography.” - Ann Lee Bressler, author of The Universalist Movement in America, 1770–1880

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsEditor’s IntroductionNote on TextChapter 1: On Our Arrival West of the MountainsChapter 2: This Cross-Bearing CompanyChapter 3: It Might Be a Benefit to TravelChapter 4: A Kind of Agreeable DreadChapter 5: The Whole Race of Adam Would Be RestoredChapter 6: My Best Earthly FriendChapter 7: A Great and Growing EvilEpilogueNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

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.David Torbett is an associate professor of religion and history at Marietta College in Ohio. He is the author of Theology and Slavery: Charles Hodge and Horace Bushnell.

“David Torbett has mined nearly every piece of historical ore out of The Autobiography of Daniel Parker. His research is flawless, his interpretation insightful. This book is an important read for anyone wishing to understand the development of abolitionist thought in the Midwest.” - Brian L. Hackett, associate professor of public history, Northern Kentucky University “David Torbett’s research for this project has been nothing short of staggeringly impressive. He has immersed himself in the major currents of religious history, especially the history of Universalism, but also topics such as the Mormon church and sectarianism. He shows broad knowledge on the background of colonization, anti-slavery and abolitionism, other reform movements including temperance and women’s rights as well as the ‘cult of true womanhood,’ Native American history, the history of the War of 1812, aspects of travel, frontier, and the history of inventions. His astoundingly extensive notes bear witness to a scholar determined to complete thorough and meticulous research and thus give proper context to the autobiography.” - Ann Lee Bressler, author of The Universalist Movement in America, 1770–1880

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsEditor’s IntroductionNote on TextChapter 1: On Our Arrival West of the MountainsChapter 2: This Cross-Bearing CompanyChapter 3: It Might Be a Benefit to TravelChapter 4: A Kind of Agreeable DreadChapter 5: The Whole Race of Adam Would Be RestoredChapter 6: My Best Earthly FriendChapter 7: A Great and Growing EvilEpilogueNotesSelected BibliographyIndex