Academic and Editorial Ministry
Rev. Bascom was selected as the first president of Madison College, Uniontown, Pennsylvania (1827–29). He became an agent of the American Colonization Society (1829–31), working to help resettle American free blacks in Liberia, Africa. Most American blacks wanted their civil rights in their country of birth, the United States.
In 1832 Bascom was hired as Professor of Moral Science and Belles-lettres at Augusta College, an early Methodist school in Kentucky. He taught there until 1842.
Rev. Bascom was selected as president of Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky (1842–1849) (he had declined two other offers). A portrait of Rev. Bascom, painted circa 1826 by the artist John Neagle, hangs in the University Board Room.
From 1846 until 1850, Rev. Bascom edited the Southern Methodist Quarterly Review. He was a delegate to every M.E. General Conference from 1828 until 1844.
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