1739 PRAYER REVIVAL. One of the Earliest Inter-Racial Prayer Meetings in America! Jonathan Edwards, &c.

A wonderful Great Awakening irreplaceable 43pp unpublished primary resource from the genetic moments of the American Great Awakening with connections to Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield, Joseph Sewall, the Diptheria Outbreak of 1736-1739, etc.,  Perhaps most importantly, it contains what is one of the very earliest manuscript records of an inter-racial prayer meeting in America with black Americans, noting they go to pray for revival with "some negroes." Prayer meetings with Native Americans have a much more robust history via the missionary societies ranging from John Eliot to David Brainerd, etc.  The 1739-1740 48pp diary of Rev. Joseph Emerson [1721-1775]. This incredibly evocative document details the interior spiritual life of a young pastor caught up in the earliest phases of the Great Awakening. He discusses his interior life and drops important names like he knew we would be reading it hundreds of years later.  He goes to hear Whitefield preach in Boston and discusses the im