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Centuries Collide

Cody Crouch: Going Woke | Centuries Collide

December 4, 2024 | S2:E5

Cody Crouch: Going Woke | Centuries Collide
Host Cody Crouch takes us on an unforgettable ride through the moments that made the U.S.A. the country it is today.
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Centuries Collide | Cody Crouch: Going Woke | Centuries Collide | December 4, 2024
  • - i am cody crouch. on my new show centuries collide
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  • American history,
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  • I'm traveling across the united states uncovering
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  • The incredibly true history of what makes our
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  • Nation so great.
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  • We're recreating some of american history's
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  • Greatest moments, exactly how they happened.
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  • - didn't you think the rock would be bigger?
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  • - welcome to the craziest, strangest, most whateverest
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  • Crash course on american history.
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  • Buckle up.
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  • It's time for centuries collide.
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  • Let's start the show off with some really great
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  • News. religion's in decline.
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  • Racial divisions are at an all time high.
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  • There's war, disease, and don't even get me started
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  • On all the political turmoil.
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  • It's as turmoily as ever before.
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  • Am i right?
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  • What an awesome way to start a show.
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  • Now, what if i told you that all of this stuff
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  • Was exactly what was happening in the early
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  • Days of american history, like in the years 1700
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  • And whatever?
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  • Don't believe me?
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  • See for yourself.
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  • America is far from perfect, but think about
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  • How far we've come in just a few generations.
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  • I mean, 200 years ago, women couldn't vote,
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  • Slavery was still legal, and politicians
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  • Were corrupt.
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  • Okay, maybe that hasn't changed, but still we've
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  • Come a long way, baby.
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  • So what happened?
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  • What caused these big societal changes?
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  • Get ready for the true story of how america
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  • Faced for sleeping flaws and really got woke.
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  • ♪♪
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  • - it's the early 1800's.
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  • America is growing fast.
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  • She's adding more land, more people, more stars
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  • To go along with her stripes.
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  • She's like an adorable newborn baby.
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  • She's full of promise, not quite sure who she is
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  • Yet, and also making plenty of giant stinking
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  • Messes along the way.
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  • So let's take a moment and unpack this
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  • Metaphorical dirty diaper.
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  • In the year 1800, women had very few rights.
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  • They couldn't vote, they couldn't serve in our
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  • Representational form of government.
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  • Most women couldn't even find work outside
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  • Of the home.
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  • - i'd like to apply for a job.
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  • - oh. are you expecting? - to get a job?
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  • - there is one job for you kind of people, and
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  • That's birthing people.
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  • Oh, and look your name's even bertha.
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  • Perfect. goodnight.
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  • - there were plenty of social ills too,
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  • Like alcoholism.
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  • During this time, americans drank more
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  • Alcohol than ever before or since.
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  • Get this, the average was five gallons of pure
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  • Alcohol per person per year.
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  • That's enough alcohol to be lit basically
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  • All the time.
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  • Today we drank way less than half of that.
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  • And of course the worst of it all... slavery.
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  • In the 1800's, the population in the united
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  • States was 5.3 million people and over 15%
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  • Was enslaved.
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  • That's around a million people. not good at all.
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  • Many of our founding fathers hated slavery,
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  • But still it was the law of the land.
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  • Thankfully, a lot changed in the 1800's, but
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  • What started it all?
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  • What was the collective alarm clock that
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  • Woke us all up?
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  • Any guesses?
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  • Yeah, celebrities.
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  • - i would like to thank no one but myself.
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  • - everyone knows all of america instantly
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  • Changes the moment
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  • Famous actors make passionate political
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  • Speeches after winning awards.
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  • - don't be such a freaking loser.
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  • Be like me.
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  • - just kidding.
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  • It was actually pastors.
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  • No, really?
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  • It was.
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  • - thank you.
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  • Thank you.
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  • I'll take it from here.
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  • - we call this period the second great awakening.
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  • It was a religious revival unlike anything
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  • America had ever seen, and it wasn't just
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  • Limited to the four walls of the church either.
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  • This revival woke up our schools and universities,
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  • Our politicians and political systems,
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  • Freemen and slaves.
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  • It was kind of a big deal.
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  • Now, if there was a second great awakening,
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  • There had to be a first, right?
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  • So let me give you a brief view of what the first
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  • Great awakening was all about.
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  • Our story begins at the university of oxford in
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  • Oxford, england.
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  • You know how college students can join a club
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  • Based upon their hobbies or interests like the
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  • Chess club or alpha kappa delta or the poetry slam
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  • Or the harry potter fan club, and amongst all
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  • These cool clubs, there was one not so cool club,
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  • The holy club.
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  • Now, they didn't give themselves this name.
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  • It was actually given to them by their fellow
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  • Students as an insult, and the insult stuck.
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  • - now on wednesdays we wear black.
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  • - and we fast. - oh, thanks.
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  • Oh, what about on thursdays we go visit
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  • Some prisoners?
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  • - oh, he's going to fit right in, charles.
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  • - he is. yes.
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  • That was a wonderful idea.
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  • Very holy of you.
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  • - thanks, guys.
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  • - very holy. - thanks.
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  • - so who were these righteous nerds?
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  • Oh, you might actually recognize some of
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  • Their names.
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  • The brothers john and charles wesley and george
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  • Whitefield would have major impact on the early
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  • American colonies, but for now, they were just
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  • Regular college students who did not so regular
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  • College things like fasting until 3:00 pm on
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  • Wednesdays and fridays, receiving holy communion
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  • Once a week. they took food to poor families.
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  • They even visited lonely prisoners and taught
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  • Orphans how to read.
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  • So how did these holy club brits have such a
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  • Major impact on early american history?
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  • In the 1730's, the holy club took their show on
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  • The road.
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  • - we're going to take this thing on the road.
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  • - are you ready to catch us on tour for the first
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  • Great awakening? - let's get ready to wake up!
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  • - john wesley sailed to the colonies with the
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  • Intention of reaching the native tribes.
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  • But this mission wasn't quite as successful as he
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  • Had hoped.
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  • ♪ whoa ...
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  • - go back to england!
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  • - whoa, man! i'm jamming here, brother.
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  • - george whitefield was also a
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  • Certifiable rockstar.
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  • He toured the american colonies and europe
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  • 34 years. he traveled around horseback speaking
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  • In churches, town squares and open fields.
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  • It's estimated he spoke over 18,000 times to a
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  • Collective audience of over 10 million people.
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  • The population of the colonies was only
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  • 3 million then.
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  • That means most people saw him live multiple times.
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  • And it wasn't just the british holy rollers
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  • Either. connecticut native jonathan edwards
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  • Delivered a fiery sermon called sinners in the
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  • Hands of an angry god
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  • All throughout the colonies. edwards
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  • Threatened damnation and warned of god's
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  • Wrathful justice.
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  • - therefore, let anyone who does not know christ
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  • Awake! fly away from the wrath to come.
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  • ♪ the wrath of an almighty god is now undoubtedly
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  • Hanging over a great part of this congregation.
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  • - there are many stories of people fainting in his
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  • Sermons and shouting, what must i do to be saved?
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  • Now i know what you're thinking.
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  • America was founded by a bunch of religious fanatics.
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  • Of course, americans would go to revival meetings.
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  • Well, not exactly.
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  • You see, all of this was taking place during the
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  • Age of enlightenment. science, and humanism was
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  • All the rage.
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  • Religious piety, not so much.
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  • Of course, the church wasn't doing itself
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  • Any favors.
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  • It was being plagued by major denominational divisions.
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  • In those days, the colonies acted more like
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  • Separate nations.
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  • They had different currencies, different
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  • Militias, even different official religions.
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  • Pennsylvania was quaker, virginia and south
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  • Carolina were anglican, new york, dutch reformed,
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  • And so on and so on.
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  • When it came to unity, the american church
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  • Was asleep.
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  • But these revival speakers were like a
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  • Giant alarm clock from heaven.
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  • - one of whitefield's most famous sermons,
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  • Father abraham , really hit hard.
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  • - let us forget these party names and
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  • Become christians.
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  • - divided colonies were finding common ground
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  • In their faith.
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  • In essence, they all started singing the same song.
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  • ♪ kumbaya, my lord, kumbaya ... oh lord, kumbaya ...
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  • ♪ aahhh ...
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  • - revival was spread like wildfire.
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  • Everything was changing.
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  • Even religious skeptic, benjamin franklin was
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  • Down with it.
  • 00:09:09.538 --> 00:09:10.606
  • Benjamin franklin once said, one could not walk
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  • Through the town in an evening without hearing
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  • Psalms sung in different families of every street.
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  • Religious differences were disappearing.
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  • The church started to unite, and the sermons
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  • Preached during the second
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  • Great awakening inspired a brand new way
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  • Of thinking.
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  • People started to look to the bible for answers on
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  • The complex issues of their day, like resisting
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  • Tyrannical rulers, limiting the power of
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  • Government, establishing equal rights, abolishing
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  • The slave trade.
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  • All of these foundational ideas that helped build
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  • America actually came straight from the bible.
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  • ♪ give me liberty or give me death ...
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  • Now give me more cow bell.
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  • A special thanks to these horse riding, holy roller
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  • Rockstar revival preachers that actually
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  • Planted the seed of america's independence
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  • From tyrannical britain.
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  • Now let's move on to my favorite great awakening.
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  • - a great awakening!
  • 00:10:18.240 --> 00:10:19.208
  • - it's the early 1800's. maybe america's
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  • Kind of sexist, boozy slavery, still a thing,
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  • Religious deal was in a slump and it seemed once
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  • Again, the church was dead.
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  • We needed to get rewoke.
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  • ♪♪
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  • Even some political leaders began to notice
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  • America's spiritual and moral malaise.
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  • In 1810, the governor of massachusetts,
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  • Christopher gore, made an official proclamation for
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  • A day of humiliation, fasting and prayer.
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  • And it goes a little something like this.
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  • Thank you.
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  • - i need to have a long talk with god after this.
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  • - you really should.
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  • You're the worst of all of us.
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  • - doesn't god know it?
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  • - okay, pause.
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  • Can you imagine a governor releasing a
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  • Statement like that today?
  • 00:11:17.833 --> 00:11:19.335
  • Anyway, those prayers were answered, and once
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  • Again, revival was sweeping through the land.
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  • Welcome to the second great awakening.
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  • The second great awakening covers a
  • 00:11:29.745 --> 00:11:31.680
  • 50 year span.
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  • That's a lot to cover.
  • 00:11:33.883 --> 00:11:35.317
  • So i'm just going to zero in on a few of my
  • 00:11:35.317 --> 00:11:37.153
  • Favorite stories
  • 00:11:37.153 --> 00:11:38.521
  • Like charles finney. he was one of the biggest
  • 00:11:38.521 --> 00:11:41.557
  • Rock stars to come out of this era, but that wasn't
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  • His original career path.
  • 00:11:45.127 --> 00:11:47.463
  • Charles finney was a lawyer. one day
  • 00:11:47.463 --> 00:11:49.832
  • While charles was studying his legal
  • 00:11:49.832 --> 00:11:51.534
  • Textbooks, he noticed a pattern.
  • 00:11:51.534 --> 00:11:54.103
  • The basis for so many of our civil laws came
  • 00:11:54.103 --> 00:11:56.739
  • Straight from the bible.
  • 00:11:56.739 --> 00:11:58.340
  • So if he wanted to understand the law, he
  • 00:11:58.340 --> 00:12:01.010
  • Should probably study the bible. he did, and then he
  • 00:12:01.010 --> 00:12:04.013
  • Converted to christianity.
  • 00:12:04.013 --> 00:12:06.348
  • Finney is known as the father of old revivalism
  • 00:12:06.348 --> 00:12:09.618
  • And kind of invented the way that we think of
  • 00:12:09.618 --> 00:12:12.054
  • Revival today.
  • 00:12:12.054 --> 00:12:14.356
  • This guy was way ahead of his time.
  • 00:12:14.356 --> 00:12:16.692
  • He popularized a dramatic charismatic style of
  • 00:12:16.692 --> 00:12:19.862
  • Preaching, which was something people
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  • Weren't used to.
  • 00:12:21.997 --> 00:12:23.098
  • He told stories, used big gestures, and even called
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  • People out by name.
  • 00:12:26.001 --> 00:12:27.703
  • He was even criticized for being too rowdy and vulgar.
  • 00:12:27.703 --> 00:12:32.641
  • - what i'm trying to say is
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  • Jesus loves you, like a lot,
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  • And god rocks! [rock music]
  • 00:12:37.513 --> 00:12:40.783
  • - back then, vulgar didn't mean profanity.
  • 00:12:40.783 --> 00:12:44.220
  • It just meant instead of using a lot of thees and
  • 00:12:44.220 --> 00:12:47.289
  • Thous from the king james bible, he just
  • 00:12:47.289 --> 00:12:49.225
  • Talked to people in the language of their day.
  • 00:12:49.225 --> 00:12:52.928
  • Okay, it gets worse.
  • 00:12:52.928 --> 00:12:54.864
  • Charles finney even allowed women to pray
  • 00:12:54.864 --> 00:12:56.866
  • At his revival meetings...
  • 00:12:56.866 --> 00:12:59.435
  • [whispers] out loud.
  • 00:12:59.435 --> 00:13:01.370
  • - i want you to welcome to the stage,
  • 00:13:01.370 --> 00:13:03.239
  • Sister bertha. i want you to come on up and lead us
  • 00:13:03.239 --> 00:13:05.708
  • All in a word of prayer.
  • 00:13:05.708 --> 00:13:09.478
  • - our father who art in heaven...
  • 00:13:10.212 --> 00:13:14.516
  • [singing rock style] hallowed by thy name!
  • 00:13:14.516 --> 00:13:18.821
  • - estimates show that in just one year of his
  • 00:13:18.821 --> 00:13:21.590
  • Revival services, more than 100,000 americans
  • 00:13:21.590 --> 00:13:25.294
  • Converted to christianity.
  • 00:13:25.294 --> 00:13:26.862
  • In just one year!
  • 00:13:26.862 --> 00:13:28.330
  • In christianity, finney found a way to merge his
  • 00:13:28.330 --> 00:13:30.833
  • Spiritual passions with a desire for broad social
  • 00:13:30.833 --> 00:13:33.802
  • Reform, which is actually a really good way to sum
  • 00:13:33.802 --> 00:13:36.906
  • Up what happened in the second great awakening.
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  • Here's the cool thing about a religious revival.
  • 00:13:39.942 --> 00:13:43.112
  • It's like one big party where everyone is invited.
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  • Men, women, children, black people,
  • 00:13:46.315 --> 00:13:49.184
  • Native people, rich and poor, sinner and saint.
  • 00:13:49.184 --> 00:13:52.288
  • It's the one place in society where no one is excluded.
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  • Women begin to outnumber men as christian
  • 00:13:55.991 --> 00:13:58.661
  • Converts, and as these social reform movements
  • 00:13:58.661 --> 00:14:01.196
  • Began to grow, so too did the role for women;
  • 00:14:01.196 --> 00:14:05.801
  • Bible societies, missionary societies,
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  • Women suffragists, abolitionists,
  • 00:14:08.671 --> 00:14:11.440
  • Temperate societies, evangelicals
  • 00:14:11.440 --> 00:14:13.876
  • Opposing indian removal from their native lands,
  • 00:14:13.876 --> 00:14:17.012
  • These 19th century ministers inspired people
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  • To put their faith into tangible action.
  • 00:14:19.648 --> 00:14:22.484
  • They built orphanages, medical dispensaries.
  • 00:14:22.484 --> 00:14:25.321
  • They created programs to help people
  • 00:14:25.321 --> 00:14:26.822
  • Find meaningful work.
  • 00:14:26.822 --> 00:14:28.390
  • And because women were invited to this revival
  • 00:14:28.390 --> 00:14:30.592
  • Party, they started leading the charge.
  • 00:14:30.592 --> 00:14:33.495
  • Women were finding work and purpose
  • 00:14:33.495 --> 00:14:36.265
  • Outside of the kitchen.
  • 00:14:36.265 --> 00:14:38.467
  • - say what? - i'm kidding.
  • 00:14:38.467 --> 00:14:41.603
  • Now, before we go any further,
  • 00:14:41.603 --> 00:14:42.871
  • It might be helpful to define what a revival is.
  • 00:14:42.871 --> 00:14:46.408
  • To get a little insight, we are going to talk to a
  • 00:14:46.408 --> 00:14:48.844
  • Real american historian, mr. tim barton at
  • 00:14:48.844 --> 00:14:52.614
  • Wallbuilders in aledo, texas.
  • 00:14:52.614 --> 00:14:54.850
  • Let's start with you kind of helping us define
  • 00:14:54.850 --> 00:14:57.419
  • Exactly what a revival is.
  • 00:14:57.419 --> 00:14:59.254
  • - i think it's important to identify that.
  • 00:14:59.254 --> 00:15:00.923
  • So often when we use the word revival,
  • 00:15:00.923 --> 00:15:02.324
  • It's different than awakening because
  • 00:15:02.324 --> 00:15:03.659
  • Revivals we think of as a weekend service.
  • 00:15:03.659 --> 00:15:05.861
  • Maybe it was a year or two revival.
  • 00:15:05.861 --> 00:15:07.529
  • The awakenings was a cultural transformation.
  • 00:15:07.529 --> 00:15:10.399
  • First great awakening lasts 30 to 40 years.
  • 00:15:10.399 --> 00:15:12.434
  • Second great awakening lasts 60 to 70 years.
  • 00:15:12.434 --> 00:15:15.404
  • And so it wasn't just people getting saved,
  • 00:15:15.404 --> 00:15:17.573
  • It was literally the transformation of culture.
  • 00:15:17.573 --> 00:15:20.542
  • And culture was transformed based on
  • 00:15:20.542 --> 00:15:23.212
  • Those biblical truths.
  • 00:15:23.212 --> 00:15:24.413
  • - okay, so what was some of the things that were
  • 00:15:24.413 --> 00:15:26.081
  • Going on that made these awakenings and revivals
  • 00:15:26.081 --> 00:15:28.183
  • So important and necessary?
  • 00:15:28.183 --> 00:15:30.252
  • - i think there were people that were
  • 00:15:30.252 --> 00:15:31.787
  • Embracing things that were not biblical truths,
  • 00:15:31.787 --> 00:15:34.890
  • Right? that they were kind of changing their
  • 00:15:34.890 --> 00:15:36.625
  • Idea standards of right and wrong,
  • 00:15:36.625 --> 00:15:38.527
  • And so you get people coming along saying,
  • 00:15:38.527 --> 00:15:40.095
  • Wait a second, guys, we can't change standards
  • 00:15:40.095 --> 00:15:41.964
  • Of right and wrong.
  • 00:15:41.964 --> 00:15:43.132
  • We can't redefine what's acceptable just because
  • 00:15:43.132 --> 00:15:46.068
  • We're now an evolved society.
  • 00:15:46.068 --> 00:15:48.404
  • We have to go back to the word of god.
  • 00:15:48.404 --> 00:15:49.838
  • And so in both great awakenings,
  • 00:15:49.838 --> 00:15:51.273
  • What you see was there was debates over
  • 00:15:51.273 --> 00:15:53.876
  • Truth and morality. what is true?
  • 00:15:53.876 --> 00:15:56.311
  • What is morally right and wrong?
  • 00:15:56.311 --> 00:15:58.013
  • And this wasn't always even agreed to.
  • 00:15:58.013 --> 00:16:00.149
  • For example, in the second great awakening,
  • 00:16:00.149 --> 00:16:01.617
  • One of the major issues was the issue of slavery.
  • 00:16:01.617 --> 00:16:04.053
  • And there were pastors in some of the southern
  • 00:16:04.053 --> 00:16:06.355
  • States who were saying, no, slavery is biblical.
  • 00:16:06.355 --> 00:16:08.357
  • It's in the bible.
  • 00:16:08.357 --> 00:16:09.391
  • And there were pastors from northern states
  • 00:16:09.391 --> 00:16:10.559
  • Going, but that wasn't god's design.
  • 00:16:10.559 --> 00:16:12.294
  • That wasn't what god wanted.
  • 00:16:12.294 --> 00:16:13.896
  • So second great awakening was a little bit more
  • 00:16:13.896 --> 00:16:16.331
  • About cultural issues.
  • 00:16:16.331 --> 00:16:17.766
  • The first great awakening was a little bit more about
  • 00:16:17.766 --> 00:16:20.269
  • Spiritual recognition of who god was.
  • 00:16:20.269 --> 00:16:22.704
  • - so what were they talking about that made
  • 00:16:22.704 --> 00:16:24.540
  • Them so influential?
  • 00:16:24.540 --> 00:16:26.508
  • - so what you see is in the second and first
  • 00:16:26.508 --> 00:16:28.911
  • Great awakening, they were some of the most
  • 00:16:28.911 --> 00:16:31.146
  • Spiritually practical sermons that maybe
  • 00:16:31.146 --> 00:16:33.315
  • We've ever seen preached.
  • 00:16:33.315 --> 00:16:35.050
  • You could just about pick a topic.
  • 00:16:35.050 --> 00:16:36.585
  • We at wallbuilders have thousands of original
  • 00:16:36.585 --> 00:16:39.054
  • Sermons from the first and second grade awakening
  • 00:16:39.054 --> 00:16:40.789
  • Era, and you literally can pick a topic,
  • 00:16:40.789 --> 00:16:42.825
  • And i probably could find a sermon where pastors
  • 00:16:42.825 --> 00:16:44.726
  • Are dealing with that topic because they
  • 00:16:44.726 --> 00:16:47.329
  • Understood that there's nothing in our life
  • 00:16:47.329 --> 00:16:49.665
  • That the bible doesn't give guidance to. and
  • 00:16:49.665 --> 00:16:51.533
  • They preached all of those sermons from their pulpits.
  • 00:16:51.533 --> 00:16:53.869
  • - so there was nothing that was off limits
  • 00:16:53.869 --> 00:16:55.571
  • To these guys.
  • 00:16:55.571 --> 00:16:56.672
  • - you will literally find sermons on whatever
  • 00:16:56.672 --> 00:16:58.774
  • Topic just happened,
  • 00:16:58.774 --> 00:17:00.309
  • They're preaching sermons on it.
  • 00:17:00.309 --> 00:17:01.543
  • - and that doesn't happen too much today.
  • 00:17:01.543 --> 00:17:02.911
  • That can get pretty controversial, especially
  • 00:17:02.911 --> 00:17:04.780
  • With all the issues we're dealing with today.
  • 00:17:04.780 --> 00:17:06.748
  • - so many pastors today are afraid of offending
  • 00:17:06.748 --> 00:17:08.617
  • Somebody. but the reality is, in an awakening,
  • 00:17:08.617 --> 00:17:11.186
  • When you're having battles over truth and
  • 00:17:11.186 --> 00:17:12.688
  • Morality, the truth can be offensive.
  • 00:17:12.688 --> 00:17:14.990
  • George whitefield, the most famous evangelist,
  • 00:17:14.990 --> 00:17:17.359
  • Was heavily persecuted by other pastors because
  • 00:17:17.359 --> 00:17:19.728
  • They were saying he's not lining up
  • 00:17:19.728 --> 00:17:21.563
  • With the status quo.
  • 00:17:21.563 --> 00:17:22.731
  • He's causing trouble because he preached for
  • 00:17:22.731 --> 00:17:24.566
  • More than 30 years in america. his last decade,
  • 00:17:24.566 --> 00:17:26.735
  • Pastors loved him.
  • 00:17:26.735 --> 00:17:28.103
  • - so in the scope of american history,
  • 00:17:28.103 --> 00:17:30.072
  • Why were these awakenings important?
  • 00:17:30.072 --> 00:17:32.875
  • - had it not been for the first great
  • 00:17:32.875 --> 00:17:34.610
  • Awakening, arguably america never could have
  • 00:17:34.610 --> 00:17:36.778
  • Been united upon basic principles to
  • 00:17:36.778 --> 00:17:39.281
  • Become a nation.
  • 00:17:39.281 --> 00:17:40.482
  • When we read in the declaration that we hold
  • 00:17:40.482 --> 00:17:42.251
  • These truths to be self-evident, well,
  • 00:17:42.251 --> 00:17:44.153
  • Where did they come up with these truths that
  • 00:17:44.153 --> 00:17:45.821
  • Were self-evident?
  • 00:17:45.821 --> 00:17:46.922
  • It's what pastors have been preaching.
  • 00:17:46.922 --> 00:17:48.123
  • Literally every single grievance in the
  • 00:17:48.123 --> 00:17:49.324
  • Declaration, every issue they had had been
  • 00:17:49.324 --> 00:17:51.093
  • Preached from american pulpits more than a dozen
  • 00:17:51.093 --> 00:17:52.828
  • Years before there was ever a revolution.
  • 00:17:52.828 --> 00:17:54.997
  • That's in the first great awakening where if you
  • 00:17:54.997 --> 00:17:56.798
  • Look at every major abolitionist,
  • 00:17:56.798 --> 00:17:58.300
  • Every single one, in the second great awakening,
  • 00:17:58.300 --> 00:18:00.369
  • They were all christians.
  • 00:18:00.369 --> 00:18:01.603
  • And the reason they were abolitionists was because
  • 00:18:01.603 --> 00:18:03.338
  • Of their christian faith.
  • 00:18:03.338 --> 00:18:04.706
  • So unquestionably it was christianity that led
  • 00:18:04.706 --> 00:18:07.342
  • To people standing up for truth and morality that
  • 00:18:07.342 --> 00:18:10.846
  • At the end of the second great awakening did lead
  • 00:18:10.846 --> 00:18:13.882
  • To the civil war. why?
  • 00:18:13.882 --> 00:18:15.184
  • Because christians were leading the way.
  • 00:18:15.184 --> 00:18:17.219
  • - wow, thank god for the great awakenings, right?
  • 00:18:17.219 --> 00:18:19.588
  • - absolutely.
  • 00:18:19.588 --> 00:18:20.389
  • - tim, thank you, sir.
  • 00:18:20.389 --> 00:18:21.757
  • So i don't think i've ever had a cannonball be
  • 00:18:21.757 --> 00:18:23.559
  • My foot marker right here.
  • 00:18:23.559 --> 00:18:25.194
  • I think that's pretty awesome.
  • 00:18:25.194 --> 00:18:26.528
  • What is this cannonball from?
  • 00:18:26.528 --> 00:18:27.763
  • - so that's actually from the battle of yorktown.
  • 00:18:27.763 --> 00:18:28.897
  • It's one of the bombs bursting in air
  • 00:18:28.897 --> 00:18:30.232
  • That he wrote about.
  • 00:18:30.232 --> 00:18:32.401
  • So this is one of those bombs that was designed
  • 00:18:32.401 --> 00:18:34.436
  • To burst in air.
  • 00:18:34.436 --> 00:18:35.571
  • It was a mortar, and as a small mortar,
  • 00:18:35.571 --> 00:18:37.573
  • It's 43 pounds.
  • 00:18:37.573 --> 00:18:39.775
  • - whoa, that's awesome.
  • 00:18:39.775 --> 00:18:42.077
  • - pretty big ball.
  • 00:18:42.077 --> 00:18:44.279
  • - so who are some of the other rock stars
  • 00:18:45.147 --> 00:18:47.316
  • From this era?
  • 00:18:47.316 --> 00:18:48.417
  • Here are some highlights.
  • 00:18:48.417 --> 00:18:50.052
  • Richard allen was born a slave.
  • 00:18:50.052 --> 00:18:52.921
  • He converted to christianity when a
  • 00:18:52.921 --> 00:18:54.289
  • Circuit writing minister visited the plantation
  • 00:18:54.289 --> 00:18:56.692
  • Where he lived.
  • 00:18:56.692 --> 00:18:57.893
  • Richard purchased his freedom and became a
  • 00:18:57.893 --> 00:18:59.928
  • Minister preaching to both black and
  • 00:18:59.928 --> 00:19:02.264
  • White congregations.
  • 00:19:02.264 --> 00:19:04.166
  • Harry hoosier was also a major player.
  • 00:19:04.166 --> 00:19:06.835
  • He too was born into slavery.
  • 00:19:06.835 --> 00:19:08.770
  • And here's the best part.
  • 00:19:08.770 --> 00:19:10.005
  • His converts were known as hoosiers, in case you
  • 00:19:10.005 --> 00:19:13.141
  • Ever wanted to know where the hoosiers basketball
  • 00:19:13.141 --> 00:19:15.110
  • Team got their name.
  • 00:19:15.110 --> 00:19:16.612
  • And then of course, there's timothy dwight,
  • 00:19:16.612 --> 00:19:19.514
  • The former president of yale college.
  • 00:19:19.514 --> 00:19:21.817
  • Now, at the time, yale was known as the center
  • 00:19:21.817 --> 00:19:24.286
  • Of infidelity and anti-religious attitudes.
  • 00:19:24.286 --> 00:19:28.790
  • Timothy took all these issues head on.
  • 00:19:28.790 --> 00:19:31.693
  • He entered a debate on whether the bible
  • 00:19:31.693 --> 00:19:33.729
  • Was the word of god.
  • 00:19:33.729 --> 00:19:35.597
  • That same year, 26 yale students founded
  • 00:19:35.597 --> 00:19:38.267
  • The moral society of yale college,
  • 00:19:38.267 --> 00:19:41.103
  • Which discouraged profanity, immorality,
  • 00:19:41.103 --> 00:19:43.772
  • And excessive drinking.
  • 00:19:43.772 --> 00:19:45.874
  • Now, let's talk about booze.
  • 00:19:45.874 --> 00:19:48.844
  • America had a drinking problem, and as you
  • 00:19:48.844 --> 00:19:51.713
  • Can imagine, this affected all of society.
  • 00:19:51.713 --> 00:19:55.484
  • A lot of these revivalists taught
  • 00:19:55.484 --> 00:19:57.152
  • That heavy alcohol consumption was a sin,
  • 00:19:57.152 --> 00:20:00.022
  • And that drunkenness would lead us away from
  • 00:20:00.022 --> 00:20:02.758
  • The teachings of jesus.
  • 00:20:02.758 --> 00:20:04.660
  • This gave rise to what we call the temperance
  • 00:20:04.660 --> 00:20:07.362
  • Movement. and women played a major role.
  • 00:20:07.362 --> 00:20:10.565
  • They even had their own catchphrases...
  • 00:20:10.565 --> 00:20:12.668
  • - lips that touch liquor shall not touch ours.
  • 00:20:12.668 --> 00:20:16.171
  • [laughter]
  • 00:20:16.171 --> 00:20:20.475
  • - legendary quaker, women's rights activist,
  • 00:20:20.475 --> 00:20:23.545
  • Abolitionist, and face of the silver $1 coin,
  • 00:20:23.545 --> 00:20:26.882
  • Susan b. anthony even got in on the action.
  • 00:20:26.882 --> 00:20:30.819
  • But my favorite lady of the temperance movement
  • 00:20:30.819 --> 00:20:32.988
  • Has to be hands down carey nation.
  • 00:20:32.988 --> 00:20:36.325
  • That woman was hardcore.
  • 00:20:36.325 --> 00:20:39.728
  • With a hatchet in one hand and a bible in the other,
  • 00:20:39.728 --> 00:20:43.198
  • This chick would roll into a saloon praying and
  • 00:20:43.198 --> 00:20:46.335
  • Singing hymns as she smashed up the bar
  • 00:20:46.335 --> 00:20:48.737
  • With her hatchet.
  • 00:20:48.737 --> 00:20:50.972
  • [singing] that saved a wretch like you...
  • 00:20:50.972 --> 00:20:57.579
  • I once was lost...
  • 00:20:57.579 --> 00:21:02.050
  • But now i'm found...
  • 00:21:02.050 --> 00:21:06.221
  • Was blind, but now i see...
  • 00:21:06.221 --> 00:21:13.595
  • - she was arrested 30 times for these
  • 00:21:13.595 --> 00:21:16.331
  • What she called agitations.
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  • Seriously, that's what she called them.
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  • And get this,
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  • She actually paid her fines by selling
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  • Her own line of merch.
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  • She probably should have read some of the other
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  • Passages in the bible because i don't think
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  • Destroying people's stuff with a hatchet's the right
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  • Thing to do, but her story is just way too
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  • Good to leave out.
  • 00:21:37.619 --> 00:21:39.488
  • So now we've come to the part of the show where
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  • We are going to talk about slavery.
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  • Slavery is a big complex issue, right?
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  • So how about we ease into it with a little pop quiz?
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  • True or false, slavery is bad.
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  • True. it is bad.
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  • And i really hope that wasn't argued.
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  • Okay, next question.
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  • At the height of american slavery in 1860,
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  • What percentage of americans owned slaves?
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  • 33%, 8% or 72%
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  • Would you believe 8%.
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  • It's true.
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  • A huge majority of americans actually didn't
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  • Own slaves, but this did mean those who did
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  • Owned a lot of slaves.
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  • When did the practice of the slave trade or
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  • Importing slaves become illegal?
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  • 1808, 1865 or 1927?
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  • 1808.
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  • Great britain and the united states were
  • 00:22:31.273 --> 00:22:32.974
  • Actually some of the first nations in the
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  • World to abolish the slave trade.
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  • America was starting to wake up.
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  • Unfortunately, slavery was technically still
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  • Legal, which meant there was still a
  • 00:22:42.851 --> 00:22:44.719
  • Ton of work to do.
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  • Okay, let's go back to the second great awakening.
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  • Remember revivalist rockstar charles finney?
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  • Well, this dude hated slavery's guts.
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  • He was a huge part of the underground railroad.
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  • And during his rock and roll revival tours,
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  • He boldly proclaimed that slavery was a sin.
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  • [singing] slave owners...
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  • You're on the highway to hell...
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  • I'm gonna tell you now that slavery is sin!
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  • Amen!
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  • - and sure, that might sound super obvious to
  • 00:23:16.017 --> 00:23:18.286
  • You super woke folk today.
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  • But back then, slavery was still legal,
  • 00:23:20.722 --> 00:23:23.592
  • Which meant he was speaking out against
  • 00:23:23.592 --> 00:23:25.794
  • The law of the land.
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  • And as a preacher, that's super controversial.
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  • If you are a slaveholder, don't even think about taking
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  • Communion because this dude would shut you down.
  • 00:23:34.603 --> 00:23:37.839
  • - despite what them preachers are saying,
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  • You can still take communion and be a
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  • Slave owner like myself.
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  • - keep that holy sacrament out of your mouth!
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  • - hearts were changing
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  • And these movements were growing.
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  • In 1833, the national american anti-slavery
  • 00:23:58.226 --> 00:24:01.830
  • Society was founded. and guess what?
  • 00:24:01.830 --> 00:24:04.533
  • One third of its leaders were ministers.
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  • The second great awakening would soon be
  • 00:24:10.138 --> 00:24:11.740
  • Eclipsed by a tragic period of civil war.
  • 00:24:11.740 --> 00:24:14.476
  • Even still, the revivals and reforms of the second
  • 00:24:14.476 --> 00:24:17.579
  • Great awakening had paved the way for a fairer,
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  • More just and compassionate world.
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  • It's amazing that we're still talking about
  • 00:24:24.386 --> 00:24:26.588
  • Racism and sexism and all the other isms today.
  • 00:24:26.588 --> 00:24:30.759
  • But i wonder if we can take a page from our
  • 00:24:30.759 --> 00:24:33.295
  • Forefathers and our foremothers. before they
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  • Marched in the streets, they got down on their
  • 00:24:36.031 --> 00:24:38.300
  • Knees and they prayed. before they wrote the laws,
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  • They consulted the good book. only until they were
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  • Willing to change the condition
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  • Of their own hearts
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  • Could the condition of the nation truly change.
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  • And i think we can all say amen to that.
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  • We'll see you next time.
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