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Laurie Crumpacker: Sarah Prince - A Life in Meditations & Letters

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With support from: Lowell Institute
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Thursday, February 6, 2014

Sarah Prince Gill (1728-1771), daughter of influential Old South Meeting House minister Thomas Prince, kept a spiritual diary for 21 years of her life and maintained a friendship and correspondence with her "dearest Friend" Esther Edwards Burr, daughter of colonial America's famed theologian Jonathan Edwards. Historian and Simmons professor Laurie Crumpacker discussed what the journal and letters reveal about women's roles in the Great Awakening, the astonishing spiritual revival that swept the colony.

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