Leonard Woolsey Bacon

Birth/Death:                             1830 / 1907

League Membership:             Anti-Imperialist League, 1898-1899                                                                           New England Anti-Imperialist League, 1899
                                               American Anti-Imperialist League, 1899
                                               The Anti-Imperialist League, 1904-1921

Role in League:                      Active Member

Occupation:                            Pastor

Brief Biography

Bacon was born in Connecticut, the son of Leonard Bacon, himself an influential Connecticut pastor. Both father and son graduated from Yale University and established churches and began prolific writing on spirituality. Leonard Woolsey Bacon's father played a role in the abolition movement and influenced Abraham Lincoln on that issue. That abolitionist legacy became an important part of Bacon's anti-imperialist sentiment which he shared with many fellow New Englanders who viewed Filipino subjugation as equal to chattel slavery.

Primary:

Leonard Woolsey Bacon, A Life Worth Living: Life of Emily Bliss Gould (New York: A. D. F. Randolph, 1879).

———, The History of American Christianity (New York: Christian Literature Co., 1897).

———, 'Anti-Slavery before Garrison: An Address before the Connecticut Society of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, September 19, 1902 (New Haven: Press of the Tuttle, Morehouse, and Taylor Co., 1903).

———, The Congregationalists (New York: Baker and Taylor, 1904).

Secondary:

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M. Patrick Cullinane, Liberty and Anti-Imperialism, June 21, 2009.

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