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In the 1730s and 1740s, an evangelical Christian revivalist movement swept across the Thirteen Colonies. Itinerant charismatics such as Gilbert Tennent and George Whitefield preached a gospel of hellfire to audiences numbering in the thousands or tens of thousands. Worshippers wept, shrieked, danced, and deserted mainstream Anglican and Congregationalist churches in droves. The movement appealed especially to women, the enslaved, the working class, and other disempowered groups, whom revivalists allo...Log In or Sign Up to Read More