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This acclaimed biography explores the religious life of Thomas Jefferson, and the contribution his strident commitment to religious liberty made to the formation of the nation. Renowned historian, Edwin Gaustad, chronicles Jefferson’s intellectual growth. He pays particular attention both to Jefferson’s private struggle to come to grips with his own faith, and to his public role as champion of...

as possible, a monopoly on all religious services within the colony. Presbyterians, notably Samuel Davies, who had invaded the colony by that time, naturally resented and resisted the efforts to maintain that religious monopoly. Methodists (technically still within the Church of England at this time) and Baptists soon followed with their own list of resentments and began slowly building their own campaign of resistance. A wave of revivalism in the 1740s and 1750s, often called the Great Awakening,
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