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No figure was more important to early American Baptist history than Isaac Backus. A convert of the """"Great Awakening,"""" Backus left the state-supported churches of New England and joined the Baptist movement. Tireless in his advocacy of Baptist issues, Backus opposed church-state establishments and recorded the history of Baptists, all while pastoring a Baptist church in Revolutionary America. His historical work, so influential on future historians, reached its zenith in this 1804 edition of An Abridgment of the Church History of New-England from 1602 to 1804. This book, which has been out of print for decades, reflects Backus's most mature interpretation of New England church history and makes up Volume X of the Baptists in Early North America Series.

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James P. Byrd is professor of American Religious History, Cal Turner Chancellor's Chair of Wesleyan Studies, and associate dean for Graduate Education and Research at Vanderbilt University Divinity School. His publications include A Holy Baptism of Fire and Blood and Sacred Scripture, Sacred War.

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