Illustrations Insert
George Whitefield. From Sermons on Important Subjects by the Rev. George Whitefield, A.M.
The Sleeping Congregation (William Hogarth). Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Whitefield Preaching in Moorfields, a.d. 1742 (Eyre Crowe). Courtesy of the New York Public Library.
Benjamin Franklin (Robert Feke). From the Harvard University Portrait Collection.
Portable field pulpit. From the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Whitefield Preaching from the Old State House Steps, Philadelphia. From A.S. Billingsley, The Life of the Great Preacher, Reverend George Whitefield, “Prince of Pulpit Orators.”
Danger of an Unconverted Ministry sermon by Gilbert Tennent. From the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Gilbert Tennent. From Joseph Tracy, The Great Awakening: A History of the Revival of Religion in the Time of Edwards and Whitefield.
View of Boston, 1744. From the Boston Public Library.
Massachusett (Wampanoag) Psalter, translation of Psalms by Experience Mayhew. From John Carter Brown Library, Brown University.
Enthusiasm Display’ d: or, the Moor Fields Congregation. From the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Jonathan Edwards. From Joseph Tracy, The Great Awakening: A History of the Revival of Religion in the Time of Edwards and Whitefield.
Whole Duty of a Woman handbook. From the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Publication by Sarah Osborn. From the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Andrew Croswell. Courtesy of Historic New England.
Credulity, Superstition and Fanaticism (William Hogarth). From the Boston Public Library.
Charles Chauncy (Henry W. Smith). From William Chauncey Fowler, Memorials of the Chaunceys.
Detail on Whitefield from The Scheming Triumvirate. From the The British Museum.
Whitefield Assaulted in Bed. From A.S. Billingsley, The Life of the Great Preacher, Reverend George Whitefield, “Prince of Pulpit Orators.”
Whitefield Mobbed. From A.S. Billingsley, The Life of the Great Preacher, Reverend George Whitefield, “Prince of Pulpit Orators.”
Commodore Charles Knowles. From Portsmouth Athenaeum.
The Press Gang, or English Liberty Display’d (naval impressment protests). From the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Samuel Adams. From the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Attempt to Land a Bishop in America (episcopacy controversy). Both images from John Wingate Thornton, The Pulpit of the American Revolution.
“Wicked Statesman” Thomas Hutchinson (Paul Revere). From the American Antiquarian Society.
Flight of Hutchinson Before the Rioters. From Edmund Ollier, Cassell’s History of the United States, vol. 2.
Earthenware bust of George Whitefield. Courtesty of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
A Elegiac Poem, on the Death of the Celebrated Divine . . . George Whitefield (Phillis Wheatley). Courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Phillis Wheatley (Scipio Moorhead, engraver). From the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Newport Mercury advertisement for slave commerce. Courtesy of the Rhode Island Historical Society.
A Dialogue Concerning the Slavery of the Africans sermon by Samuel Hopkins. From the New York Public Library.
Wood engraving of Samuel Hopkins by John Orr, 1870. Courtesy of the New York Public Library.
Stamp Act Riots at Boston. From Cassell’s Illustrated History of England, vol. 5.
The Prayer in the First Congress, A.D. 1774 (Harrison Tompkins Matteson). From the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.