Darkness Falls on the Land of Light: Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early ... and the University of North Carolina Press)

by Douglas L. Winiarski

The two dramatic images—thousands gathering in silent anticipation in Providence waiting for a preacher who would never appear, and thousands more coursing to Middletown at breakneck speed—were two sides of the same coin.