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Founding of the american colonies and were getting now into the 1700s. Today, in this week, im going to focus mostly on religion and the late colonial period, and the coming of the great awakening in the 17 thirties and forties. And i know this has been on you alls mind since you have a paper on that coming up. So we are going to give some of the background to religion in the colonial period, and then the lead up to the great awakening, some overview of whats happening in the great awakening. And hopefully that will set you up better for your papers. You can see here on the screen we have an image of George Whitfield, who is the most famous preacher of the great awakening, preaching in london. Theyre in the 17 thirties, 17 forties, he is the sensation of the age. But well talk more about him when we get there. First, i want to take a look at the background to whats happening in 18th Century America with regard to religion. And weve talked about some of this already, before, in class, a

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