The Great Awakening of the 1730s and 1740s
In the 1730s and 1740s many rural folk rejected the enlightened and rational religion that came from the cosmopolitan pulpits and port cities of British North America. During the period between the 1730s and the 1770s however these efforts intensified into a broader movement known as the First Great Awakening. Great Awakening History In the history of the Atlantic antislavery movement two events were of greatimportance. . Many experienced the moral transformatoin as promised. The number of people in the church multiplied and the lives of the converted manifested true Christian piety. Many were beginning to refuse Calvinistic beliefs and. In the 1740s the colonists in overwhelming numbers laid claim to the divine power which their theology offered them. The Great Awakening was a religious revival that impacted the English colonies in America during the 1730s and 1740s. The First Great Awakening began in the 1730s and lasted...