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Peter Cartwright (September 1, 1785 - September 25, 1872) was an American Methodist revivalist and politician in Illinois. He helped start the Second Great Awakening and personally baptized twelve thousand converts. In 1828 and again in 1832 he was elected to the lower house of the Illinois General Assembly. As a Methodist Circuit Rider, Cartwright rode circuits in Tennessee and Kentucky.

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As a panel of Americana this life story of an ?? seems worth reissuing. Professor Charles Wallaces ?? places the book in its background of the mid 19th century. In ?? Cartwright completed his record he estimated that he had received ?? ten thousand converts. He baptised 12,000 children and ?? 14,600 ??. One of the fiercest revi??lists to pi?? in ?? himself a convert in his native Kentucky. He had on effect that ?? was in??descent. Today his descriptions of ?? may offend some readers, but with current ins?? in ?? type of revivalism adds an historical note. ?? extremes of poverty and hardship in his fifty three years of ?? his story has its ?? of inspiration as a part of the ?? in America. (Kirkus Reviews)

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