Page "Joel Barlow" Paragraph 1

Barlow was born in Redding, Fairfield County, Connecticut.

He briefly attended Dartmouth College before graduating from Yale University in 1778, where he was also a postgraduate student for two years.

In 1778, he published an anti-slavery poem entitled " The Prospect of Peace ".

From September 1780 until the close of the revolutionary war was chaplain in a Massachusetts brigade.

Then, in 1783, he moved to Hartford, Connecticut, in July 1784 established a weekly paper called American Mercury, with which he was connected for a year.

In 1786 he was admitted to the bar.