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Pious ambitions : Sally Merriam Wait's mission south, 1813-1831 / Mary Tribble.
Van Pelt Library BX6495.W275 T75 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tribble, Mary C., author.
- Series:
- America's Baptists
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wait, Sarah Merriam, 1794-1871.
- Wait, Sarah Merriam.
- Spouses of clergy--North Carolina--Biography.
- Spouses of clergy.
- Baptists--North Carolina--Biography.
- Baptists.
- Baptists--Missions--North Carolina.
- Church history.
- Baptists--Missions.
- North Carolina--Church history--19th century.
- North Carolina.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Church history.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2021]
- 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.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE SOON FADES THE FLOWER
- One. Awakening
- Two. Becoming
- Three. Courting
- pt. TWO FACING THE FROWNS OF LIFE
- Four. Settling
- Five. Striving
- Six. Loving
- pt. THREE UNSTABLE GROUND
- Seven. Moving
- Eight. Fussing
- Nine. Crumbling
- pt. FOUR TO BRING US ALL TOGETHER
- Ten. Seeking
- Eleven. Reckoning
- Twelve. Choosing Home.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-227) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Tribble, Mary C. Pious ambitions
- ISBN:
- 9781621906834
- 1621906833
- OCLC:
- 1258041640
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