A proponent of slavery in Georgia, this man purchased slaves to work at his Bethesda Orphanage.
A proponent of slavery in Georgia, this man purchased slaves to work at his Bethesda Orphanage. A poem about him mourns the loss of his "wonted auditories" and "lessons in uneqal'd accents." This man may have helped Charles Wesley to write "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing" and was the subject of an elegiac 1770 poem by Phyllis Wheatley. Benjamin Franklin wrote that this man's speeches caused "all the world" to grow religious. For 10 points, name this Methodist preacher, a famous open-air speaker during the First Great Awakening.
A proponent of slavery in Georgia, this man purchased slaves to work at his Bethesda Orphanage.
George Whitefield