History of the United States I / Unit 4 USH1 0478 short lesson, about 20 seconds
George Whitefield
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The idea
George Whitefield was an Anglican itinerant, travelling the countryside instead of holding his own congregation, and electrified colonial listeners in seventeen thirty-nine.
In practice
A seventeen sixty-three cartoon showing him amid chaos, an angel and a devil above, against a calm portrait of the same man.
Where people slip
Supporters and critics saw the same preacher entirely differently.
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