Reverend Dr. Thomas Nelson Baker

Linda Batty is a professional librarian who served as a faculty member at Northfield Mount Hermon preparatory school. Her previous publications include annual bibliographies for Lincoln Center’s Film Comment magazine and the American Film Institute’s American Film magazine.

• AbbreviationsPrefaceIntroduction. Thomas Nelson Baker: Refusing Black Invisibility, George YancyChapter 1. Eastville, Northampton County, Eastern Shore, Virginia, 1860-1881Chapter 2. Hampton Agricultural and Normal School, Hampton, Virginia, 1881-1885Chapter 3. Dismal Swamp, Wallaceton, Virginia, 1885-1886Chapter 4. Mount Hermon Boys’ School, Gill, Massachusetts, 1886-1889Chapter 5. College of Liberal Arts, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts. 1889-1893Chapter 6. Yale Divinity School, 1893-1897 and Yale University, 1897-1903Chapter 7. Lizzie BaytopChapter 8. Second Congregational Church, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 1901-1910 Chapter 9. Second Congregational Church, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 1910-1941ConclusionAcknowledgmentsWritings and Comments of Thomas Nelson BakerSelected BibliographyNotesIndexAbout the Author

I first learned of Thomas Nelson Baker twenty-five years ago in our school archives. In my pantheon ever since, I assumed I knew him. Here instead, Linda Batty has recreated a living image: a towering intellectual bursting with humanity. That life I'd imagined now seems but a reflection on the wall of Plato’s cave.