Religion and Domestic Violence in Early New England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion and Domestic Violence in Early New England write by Abigail Abbot Bailey. This book was released on 1989. Religion and Domestic Violence in Early New England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This is an amazing study, a memoir which provides insight intofamily abuse in 18th century America.... a significant volume which enhances ourknowledge of social and religious life in New England. It is also a movingcontribution to the literature of spirituality." -- Review andExpositor "Students of American culture are indebted to AnnTaves for editing this fascinating and revealing document and for providing it withfull annotation and an illuminating introduction." -- American StudiesInternational "This is above all an eminently teachable text, which raises important issues in the history of religion, women, and the family andabout the place of violence in American life." -- New EnglandQuarterly ..". stimulating, enlightening, and provocative..." -- Journal of Ecumenical Studies Abigail Abbot Bailey wasa devout 18th-century Congregationalist woman whose husband abused her, committedadultery with their female servants, and practiced incest with one of theirdaughters. This new, fully annotated edition of her memoirs, featuring a detailedintroduction, offers a thoughtful analysis of the role of religion amidst the trialsof the author's everyday life.
Religion and Domestic Violence in Early New England
Religion and Domestic Violence in Early New England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion and Domestic Violence in Early New England write by Abigail Abbot Bailey. This book was released on 1989. Religion and Domestic Violence in Early New England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Doomed Romance
Doomed Romance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Doomed Romance write by Christine Leigh Heyrman. This book was released on 2021-02-09. Doomed Romance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A thwarted love triangle of heartbreak rediscovered after almost two hundred years—two men and a woman of equal ambition—that exploded in scandal and investigation, set between America's Revolution and its Civil War, revealing an age in subtle and powerful transformation, caught between the fight for women's rights and the campaign waged by evangelical Protestants to dominate the nation's culture and politics. From the winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Francis Parkman Prize in History. At its center—and the center of a love triangle—Martha Parker, a gifted young New England woman, smart, pretty, ambitious, determined to make the most of her opportunities, aspiring to become an educator and a foreign missionary. Late in 1825, Martha accepted a proposal from a schoolmaster, Thomas Tenney, only to reject him several weeks later for a rival suitor, a clergyman headed for the mission field, Elnathan Gridley. Tenney's male friends, deeply resentful of the new prominence of women in academies, benevolent and reform associations, and the mission field, decided to retaliate on Tenney's behalf by sending an anonymous letter to the head of the foreign missions board impugning Martha's character. Tenney further threatened Martha with revealing even more about their relationship, thereby ruining her future prospects as a missionary. The head of the board began an inquiry into the truth of the claims about Martha, and in so doing, collected letters, diaries, depositions, and firsthand witness accounts of Martha's character. The ruin of Martha Parker's hopes provoked a resistance within evangelical ranks over womanhood, manhood, and, surprisingly, homosexuality, ultimately threatening to destroy the foreign missions enterprise.
Darkness Falls on the Land of Light
Darkness Falls on the Land of Light - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Darkness Falls on the Land of Light write by Douglas L. Winiarski. This book was released on 2017-02-09. Darkness Falls on the Land of Light available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This sweeping history of popular religion in eighteenth-century New England examines the experiences of ordinary people living through extraordinary times. Drawing on an unprecedented quantity of letters, diaries, and testimonies, Douglas Winiarski recovers the pervasive and vigorous lay piety of the early eighteenth century. George Whitefield's preaching tour of 1740 called into question the fundamental assumptions of this thriving religious culture. Incited by Whitefield and fascinated by miraculous gifts of the Holy Spirit--visions, bodily fits, and sudden conversions--countless New Englanders broke ranks with family, neighbors, and ministers who dismissed their religious experiences as delusive enthusiasm. These new converts, the progenitors of today's evangelical movement, bitterly assaulted the Congregational establishment. The 1740s and 1750s were the dark night of the New England soul, as men and women groped toward a restructured religious order. Conflict transformed inclusive parishes into exclusive networks of combative spiritual seekers. Then as now, evangelicalism emboldened ordinary people to question traditional authorities. Their challenge shattered whole communities.
Memoirs of Mrs. Abigail Bailey
Memoirs of Mrs. Abigail Bailey - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Memoirs of Mrs. Abigail Bailey write by Abigail Abbot Bailey. This book was released on 1980. Memoirs of Mrs. Abigail Bailey available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Abigail Bailey was a deeply religious woman who married a man she discovered to be hard and unreasonable" the day after their wedding. He was a lecherous and tyrannical father who beat his daughters. She writes movingly of her ordeal, her crying out to God and her final decision to leave her husband. Feigning contriteness, he inveigled her from their home in Vermont to New York where, by law, he became master of his family. Despite her longing for her children, she escaped and returned alone on horseback to Vermont. This is a powerful account of a woman compelled in the end to lay aside-religious scruples and pity to obtain a divorce. For the last eight years of her life she lived among her surviving children: the four sons and 10 daughters she had by Mr. Bailey.
