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The Public Universal Friend: Jemima Wilkinson and Religious Enthusiasm in Revolutionary America

Book Review: The Public Universal Friend: Jemima Wilkinson and Religious Enthusiasm in Revolutionary America by Paul B. Moyer (Cornell University Press, 2015) [BUY ON AMAZON] Paul Moyer’s The Public Universal Friend explores the history of a particular sectarian movement in the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century.  The connection to the American Revolution seems tenuous […]

by Michael Tuosto