| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
America's Baptists Series |
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America's Baptists Series
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| Contents |
Intro -- Figures -- foreword -- Keith Harper -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One -- Soon Fades the Flower -- One -- Awakening -- Two -- Becoming -- Three -- Courting -- Part Two -- Facing the Frowns of Life -- Four -- Settling -- Five -- Striving -- Six -- Loving -- Part Three -- Unstable Ground -- Seven -- Moving -- Eight -- Fussing -- Nine -- Crumbling -- Part Four -- To Bring Us All Together -- Ten -- Seeking -- Eleven -- Reckoning -- Twelve -- Choosing Home -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Notes |
| Summary |
"Mary C. Tribble mines a journal and a trove of letters from the Special Collections and Archives of Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University to introduce a significant figure in North Carolina and Baptist history. The writings of Sally Merriam Wait reveal a northernborn woman with anti-slavery leanings engaging with an unfamiliar environment in the slave-holding South. Her ambition led her from young convert in revival-swept New England to devoted wife of Reverend Samuel Wait, the first president and founder of Wake Forest University. Wait's decisions are shaped by a surging evangelical movement, changes in the American economy, the rise of women's social agency, a fracturing of political traditions, and the moral conflicts inherent in a slave economy. The book provides a rare glimpse into the spiritual and worldly education of a young woman of faith at the dawn of market capitalism in Jacksonian America"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Wait, Sarah Merriam, 1794-1871.
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| SUBJECT |
Wait, Sarah Merriam, 1794-1871 fast |
| Subject |
Spouses of clergy -- North Carolina -- Biography
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Baptists -- North Carolina -- Biography
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Baptists -- Missions -- North Carolina
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Baptists
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Baptists -- Missions
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Spouses of clergy
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| SUBJECT |
North Carolina -- Church history -- 19th century
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| Subject |
North Carolina
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Biographies
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Church history
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021031087 |
| ISBN |
9781621906858 |
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162190685X |
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9781621906841 |
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1621906841 |
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