1. 3.An Empire of Slavery and the Consumer Revolution
1.1. SLAVERY AND THE STONO REBELLION
1.2. THE NEW YORK CONSPIRACY TRIALS OF 1741
1.3. COLONIAL GENTRY AND THE CONSUMER REVOLUTION
2. 4.Great Awakening and Enlightenment
2.1. THE FIRST GREAT AWAKENING
2.1.1. During the eighteenth century, the British Atlantic experienced an outburst of Protestant revivalism known as the First Great Awakening.
2.1.1.1. Congregationalists, Anglicans (members of the Church of England), and Presbyterians. They rejected what appeared to be sterile, formal modes of worship in favor of a vigorous emotional religiosity.
2.1.1.2. Martin Luther and John Calvin had preached a doctrine of predestination and close reading of scripture, new evangelical ministers spread a message of personal and experiential faith that rose above mere book learning.
2.1.1.3. In one notorious incident in 1743, an influential New Light minister named James Davenport urged his listeners to burn books. The next day, he told them to burn their clothes as a sign of their casting off the sinful trappings of the world. He then took off his own pants and threw them into the fire, but a woman saved them and tossed them back to Davenport, telling him he had gone too far.
2.1.1.4. Another outburst of Protestant revivalism began in New Jersey, led by a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church named Theodorus Frelinghuysen.
2.1.1.5. The foremost evangelical of the Great Awakening was an Anglican minister named George Whitefield. Like many evangelical ministers, Whitefield was itinerant, traveling the countryside instead of having his own church and congregation. Between 1739 and 1740, he electrified colonial listeners with his brilliant oratory.
2.2. THE ENLIGHTENMENT
2.2.1. The Enlightenment, or the Age of Reason, was an intellectual and cultural movement in the eighteenth century that emphasized reason over superstition and science over blind faith.