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Followed Wesley and Whitefield reference to the #GreatAwakening:

“In the American colonies, the Awakening caused the Congregational and Presbyterian churches to split, while strengthening both the Methodist and Baptist denominations. It had little immediate impact on most Lutherans, Quakers, and non-Protestants, but later gave rise to a schism among Quakers that persists to this day.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Great_Awakening

While reading these chapters, particularly the latter, I thought of Catherine Brekus's *Sarah Osborn's World*. In telling Osborn's story, Brekus details the many channels and forms that the religious work of early American women took (in part because formal access to the pulpit is mostly off-limits to them).

Thinking of Phillis Wheatley as doing *evangelical* work as a young poet/a young woman/a young enslaved person invites us to think of Phillis Wheatley as working in the tradition of female preaching, working in the same world, in fact as Sarah Osborn -- whose own relationship to race and slavery was of course quite complicated.

I am looking forward to thinking more about these two works together alongside each other.

#SarahOsborn
#FemalePreaching
#GreatAwakening #PhillisWheatley

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