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Believing deeply that the gospel touched every aspect of a person's life, Peter Cartwright was a man who held fast to his principles, resulting in a life of itinerant preaching and thirty years of political quarrels with Abraham Lincoln. "Peter Cartwright, Legendary Frontier Preacher" is the first full-length biography of this most famous of the early nineteenth-century Methodist circuit-riding preachers. Robert Bray tells the full story of the long relationship between Cartwright and Lincoln, including their political campaigns against each other, their social antagonisms, and their radical disagreements on the Christian religion, as well as their shared views on slavery and the central fact of their being 'self-made'.In addition, the biography examines in close detail Cartwright's instrumental role in Methodism's bitter 'divorce' of 1844, in which the southern conferences seceded in a remarkable prefigurement of the United States a decade later. Finally, Peter Cartwright attempts to place the man in his appropriate national context: as a potent 'man of words' on the frontier, a self-authorizing 'legend in his own time', and, surprisingly, an enduring western literary figure. Robert Bray is R. Forrest Colwell Professor of American Literature in the English department at Illinois Wesleyan University. He is the author of "Rediscoveries: Literature and Place in Illinois".
Believing deeply that the gospel touched every aspect of a person's life, Peter Cartwright was a man who held fast to his principles, resulting in a life of itinerant preaching and thirty years of political quarrels with Abraham Lincoln. "Peter Cartwright, Legendary Frontier Preacher" is the first full-length biography of this most famous of the early nineteenth-century Methodist circuit-riding preachers. Robert Bray tells the full story of the long relationship between Cartwright and Lincoln, including their political campaigns against each other, their social antagonisms, and their radical disagreements on the Christian religion, as well as their shared views on slavery and the central fact of their being 'self-made'.In addition, the biography examines in close detail Cartwright's instrumental role in Methodism's bitter 'divorce' of 1844, in which the southern conferences seceded in a remarkable prefigurement of the United States a decade later. Finally, Peter Cartwright attempts to place the man in his appropriate national context: as a potent 'man of words' on the frontier, a self-authorizing 'legend in his own time', and, surprisingly, an enduring western literary figure. Robert Bray is R. Forrest Colwell Professor of American Literature in the English department at Illinois Wesleyan University. He is the author of "Rediscoveries: Literature and Place in Illinois".
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Exactly when the Cartwrights left Virginia for Kentucky isn't known, but it was probably in the late summer or fall of 1790, in the first of several removals, always instigated by the father and always into emptier western territory. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Exactly when the Cartwrights left Virginia for Kentucky isn't known, but it was probably in the late summer or fall of 1790, in the first of several removals, always instigated by the father and always into emptier western territory. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Abraham Lincoln, Book Concern, Red River, United States, Beverly Allen, Kentucky Revival, New Orleans, General Jackson, Kentucky Boy, American Methodism, Bishop Andrew, Black Hawk, Jesus Christ, New England, Tennessee Conference, The Jocose Preacher, Andrew Jackson, New Salem, Frances Gaines, Jesse Walker, Joshua Soule, Bishop Asbury, Bishop Soule, Francis Asbury New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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