Seven Years’ War, 191–92, 196–98, 201, 203, 217, 222, 231–232, 252, 255
sex. See gender
Shaftesbury, third earl of (Anthony Ashley Cooper), 83, 100, 226
Shakespeare, William, 236
Shays, Daniel, 308, 310
Shepard, Thomas, 24, 323
Sherwood, Samuel, 304
Showalter, Elaine, 178
Skinner, Thomas, 158
slavery, 80, 309; and emancipation, 309–10, 313; and Enlightenment, 266–67, 287, 343; and evangelical movement, 28, 219, 237, 268, 287, 309; as a moral evil, 267, 287, 309–12; in Newport, 27–28, 194–95, 235, 237–38, 252, 255, 268, 271, 281–82, 284, 286, 310–11. See also antislavery movement
slaves, 4, 51, 63, 174–75, 185, 234, 298, 312–13; baptism of, 202–3, 243, 253, 265, 274–75; as commodities, 27, 239, 241–42, 268, 288; and evangelical movement, 10, 28, 174, 185, 201–2, 225, 237–39, 241–43, 250, 252, 254, 265–66, 268, 270, 272–75, 281–84, 286–88, 309–10, 313, 340; and literacy, 266, 271–72, 312; and missions to Africa, 281–83, 294, 313, 339; and Quakers, 265, 285–87, 295, 309–10; publications of, 268, 286; and racism, 237, 250, 266, 268–69; runaway, 255–56; and trauma of slave trade, 271–72, 310–11
Smith, Adam, 10, 210, 301
Smith, Hezekiah, 274
Smith, Mary, 318
Society of Friends. See Quakers
Southcott, Joanna, 188
Southwick, Solomon, 299
Spinoza, Baruch, 24
Spring, Gardiner, 339
Stamp Act (1765), 255, 285, 291–92
Steele, Richard, 236
Stevens, Joseph, 114, 317
Stevens, Pompey. See Stevens, Zingo
Stevens, Sarah, 270
Stevens, Zingo (Pompey), 270–71
Stiles, Ezra, 29, 202, 248, 263, 292–94, 300, 306; and African Americans, 274, 281–83, 294; and SO, 258–59, 280–81
Stillingfleet, Edward, 171
Stoddard, Solomon, 97
Stout, Harry S., 55
Styron, William, 67
suffering: and Enlightenment, 46, 59–60, 82, 226, 303, 326, 343; and evangelical movement, 9–10, 60, 70, 76–77, 82–83, 85–87, 146, 157–58, 218–19, 225–26, 228, 303, 326, 341; and humanitarianism, 10, 44, 60, 83–87, 218–19, 225, 228; as redemptive, 32, 59–60, 86–88, 151, 158, 218, 273, 303, 311, 341; of slaves, 270–71, 273, 284, 311. See also Osborn, Sarah: views on
Sugar Act (1764), 255
sumptuary laws, 208
Tanner, John, 297, 300, 306–7, 319
Tanner, Mary, 297, 306
Tanner, Obour, 282, 313
Tanner, Scipio, 319, 335
Tate, Mary, 194
Tate, William, 194
Taylor, Charles, 159
Taylor, John, 47
Tennent, Gilbert, 85, 93–95, 98–99, 112, 119–22, 128, 144, 210, 212, 332
Tenney, Cabel J., xii
theater, SO’s crusade against, 236–38
Thurston, Gardiner, 248, 257–58, 260, 263, 274
Tillotson, John, 24, 84, 145, 322, 325, 327
Tindal, Matthew, 84
Toleration Act (1689), 7, 22, 99, 224
Townshend Acts (1767), 285
Treaty of Paris (1783), 308
Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacques, 301
Tweedy, Mrs., 222
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher, 77
Universalism, 309, 325
universal salvation, 145, 331
Veblen, Thorstein, 194
Vinal, Becky, 222, 229–30, 276
Vinal, Elizabeth, 220, 222, 230, 276
Vinal, Sarah, 222, 229–30, 276
Vinal, William: alcoholism of, 230–31, 246, 251, 258–59, 275–76; and First Church, 202, 233, 275–77, 279, 283–284; and SO, 220, 222, 229, 257–59, 263, 275–77, 280, 283–84
Voltaire, 231–32, 267, 301
Wadsworth, Benjamin, 25, 44–45, 85, 158–59, 209, 215
Wallace, James, 293–95
Wanscoat, Mrs., 245
Warren, Rick, 5
Washington, George, 293, 306–8
Watts, Isaac, 38, 40, 48, 112, 325–26, 332
Weber, Max, 197, 244
Webster, Samuel, 57, 326, 330
Wesley, Charles, 340
Wesley, John, xiii, 22, 105, 340
Wesleyans, 9, 82
Westminster Confession, 96
Westminster Shorter Catechism, 36–37
Wheaten, Samuel (SO’s first husband), xiii, 1, 16, 72, 74–77, 79, 140; death of, 80–81, 88, 92, 116, 125, 130, 139, 166 –68, 288, 332
Wheaten, Samuel (SO’s son), 16, 77–79, 80, 88–89, 96, 107, 116, 120, 131, 139–41; illness and death of, 137–39, 141–44, 146–53, 155–57, 159–69, 171, 173–75, 204, 238, 241, 331–33
Wheatley, Phillis, 185, 268, 273, 282, 286
Wheelock, Eleazar, 126, 212, 225
Whiston, William, 25
Whitby, Daniel, 25, 46
White, Elizabeth, 179, 189
White, John, 26
Whitefield, George, xiii, 7, 15, 22, 24, 29, 55–56, 93–95, 105, 112–13, 119–20, 123–24, 128, 184–85, 189, 207–8, 213, 223, 225, 227–28, 257, 266
Wigglesworth, Edward, 25
Wigglesworth, Michael, 44
Wilkinson, Jemima, 188
Willard, Samuel, 53–54, 85–86
Williams, Roger, 22
Wilmot, Walter, 179
Winthrop, John, 178, 303
Witherspoon, John, 294
Wollaston, William, 83
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 189
Women: and childbirth, 77–78, 89; and Enlightenment, 8, 10, 173, 183, 187–90, 267, 342–43; as pious, 55, 57, 179–80; and poverty, 196, 215, 217, 223; and property, 131–32; and Quakers, 23, 184; and Separates, 180; as weak, 54–57, 189, 262, 323
—and evangelical movement, 10, 57, 173, 177, 180–81, 183–85, 187–90, 250, 268, 323, 340; and enthusiasm, 117–18, 188–89; and experiential language, 183–85, 189–90, 250, 340, 343; and religious authority, 183–85, 188–89, 250, 257, 260 –62, 264, 280 (see also Osborn, Sarah: prayer meetings of); and speaking in churches, 114, 180 –81, 268
—writing and publications of, 56, 171, 173, 177–85, 188–90, 280
Woolf, Virginia, 5
Woolman, John, 286
Wordsworth, William, 58
Yamma, Bristol, 270, 281–83, 286, 288, 294, 313
Yeats, W. B., 59
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