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Living the Revolution: America, 1789-1820
Topic: Predicaments of Early Republican LifeTopic: ReligionTopic: PoliticsTopic: ExpansionTopic: Equality
Topic: Religion
Overview of Living the Revolution
Resource Menu: Religion
Text 1. Online Exhibition
Text 2. Jefferson/Madison
Text 3. Adams/Jefferson
Text 4. American Bible Society
Text 5. Forks of Elkhorn Baptist Church
Text 6. Rev. Peter Cartwright
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Text 7. Richard Allen
Text 8. Background
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6.  Peter Cartwright, Autobiography: The Backwoods Preacher, 1856, excerpts

Peter Cartwright
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Brief biography of Cartwright, from the Restoration Movement Pages

"Evangelicalism and the Second Great Awakening," from the National Humanities Center



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