This began with Witfield in New England as the First Great American Awakening and spread to the American frontier as the Second Great American Awakening. We believe that all sincere revivalism efforts through external means gets mixed up with the urge of one side to dominate the other. Around the fringes of these meetings lurked the alcohol salesmen, prostitutes and other mercenaries who defused and ruined a lot of good done among many. This page intends to show that what was once considered pure witchcraft and demon-possession or hysterical contagion has its Second Incarnation as Religious Revivalism. The Cane Ridge ecumenical meeting was a later-day awakening but it is still held more sacred than Jerusalem.
Truth is one but falsehood has ten thousand by-paths.
If you don't understand drinking, you don't understand American history. Colonial Americans drank like fish - average whiskey consumption one pint daily. In the early 1800s they went on a bigger binge, mostly on hard liquor and drinking alone, rather than sociably like in the old days. Cane Ridge America's Pentecost-Hardcover History is. This book is about history.