Please join us all in the book tent where we will be signing books and please join me in thanking the panelists. [applause] that concludes live coverage of the 2013 texas book festival from austin. Thanks for joining us. If you would like to get scheduling and Program Updates from book tv, go to booktv. Org or collis andre utter at book tv is our trigger handle and also our facebook address, facebook. Com booktv. If you missed any of todays events, everything that you see today will air in its entirety tonight at midnight. You are watching book tv on cspan2. In october of 2006, Henry Louis Gates described the creation of the africana the encyclopedia of the african and africanamerican experience which includes over 3,000 articles. You can watch this one hour and a ten Minute Program next on book tv. 2013 marks book tvs anniversary that debuted on september 12th, 1998. Professor gates probably doesnt need an introduction to an audience of boston. But hes had an interesting history and i
Weve been talking about the founding of the american colonies, and were getting now into the 1700s. Today and this week i want to focus mostly on religion in the late colonial period and the coming of the great awakening in the 1730s and 40s. And i know this has been on you alls minds since you have a paper coming up. Were going to get to some background on religion in the colonial period and the leadup to the great awakening, some of the overview of what happens in the great awakening and, hopefully, thatll 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 there in the 1730s, 1740s. 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. Weve talked about some of this already before in class about the scope of religion and
Weve been talking about the 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 control 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 their 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 som
Comes to black conservatives and the Republican Party. Well, Vince Ellison has entered its questions in his new book 25 lies and he joins us now. Welcome o. Glad to be here. What do you say to every day black americans who may be skeptical about you and your book and just the explosive cover. Ill give them my back storyi was born in a con cotton plantation in tennessee, my father was a sharecropper. And he aspired, he ventured out of the plantation in tennessee through the Insurance Industry and he was so thankful god had given us a middleclass life that we started the Gospel Singing Group called the ellison family, we went singing gospel music throughout the south. This is how i got such an intimate knowledge of the black church and after athat i went to the college of mississippi and working at the prison in South Carolina. Five years i worked at kirkland correctional facility and i saw evil. Iwas supposed to supervise hundred and 27 hardcore felons every day. And i was there most of
Happening in 18th Century America with regard to religion. Weve talked about some of this already before in class about the scope of religion and religious commitment across the colonies. If you look first at the southern colonies from maryland down to georgia, mostly what we have is a formal commitment to the church of england. And the church of england, of course, is the National Official church of england, of britain, and most of those colonies adopt what we would call a kind of formal establishment of the church of england. But the southern colonies overall are probably the least religious of all the colonial regions which, if you think about that for a second, youll see why thats a little weird. We think of the southed today as the bible belt, correctly. But in the colonial period, its different. In the colonial period, there is a kind of formal establishment at least of the church of england, but once you get out past the Colonial Cities, places like williamsburg, charleston and