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Sarah Osborn's World

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by Brekus, Catherine A.

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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