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Paperback book titled "Why I am a Universalist" by P. T. Barnum. Barnum was raised in the Congregational Church in his hometown of Bethel, Connecticut, where he was born in 1810. He disliked the negative view of humanity that were fundamental to the Calvinist doctrine preached in the Congregationalist church. As a young man, he turned to the Universalist Church, in which the teachings offered a more uplifting and hopeful view of mankind. Barnum included Universalist tracts in the weekly newspaper he published between 1831 and 1834, The Herald of Freedom. Throughout his life, Barnum considered himself man of faith and he retained a close connection to the Universalist Church. The Barnum Museum owns another version of this publication featuring the front and back cover only, that has been digitized for the P. T. Barnum Digital Collection.
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