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History Questions: Lee Conversion

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Read the article and answer the following questions.
1. How would you characterize Lee's conversion? What was empowering about evangelical conversions?
2. What gave Lee, a black woman, the authority and the courage to challenge the tradition of male-only preachers?
3.How is Mary Morgan's death an act of reform? What was Arthur's purpose in employing a female child to accomplish this work of reformation?
4. How might Arthur's melodrama be interpreted as a critique of the market revolution?
What did drinking and taverns represent in this culture, and why did they need reforming?
5. How could two religious reformers such as Sylvester Graham and John Humphrey Noyes come to such divergent opinions on the nature of sexuality and the best method to achieve moral reform? Where so they agree, and where do their perspectives diverge?
6. Which do you think Noyes's critics found more threatening, Noyes's rejection of marriage or his insistence that the Bible encouraged “free love”
7. What does this story reveal about the mindest of colonization reformers?
8. What is the significance of putting the words “the making of a man of me” into the mouth of an imagined free black man?

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1. Lee’s conversion is intense as she decides to leave the hatred she felt towards another person and embrace a new life. The moment she lets go of hatred from her body and soul, she felt freed from sin and the power of God filled her soul. The evangelical conversions were empowering in offering a person salvation from sin and made an individual one with God. Evangelical conversions allow a person to confess that they have received salvation and so they are filled with the glory of God. Further, the evangelical conversions become empowering because after receiving salvation, one is tasked with spreading the good news to others. They have the responsibility of sharing the word of God to bring sinners to God so that they also receive this salvation to save their soul from destruction.
2. Lee was given authority by the word of God to challenge the tradition that women cannot preach. She felt that the word of God was clear in indicating that the Savior (Jesus) died for both man and woman, and so if a man can preach a woman can also preach because God took away her sins also. Lee felt it would be hypocritical for men to prevent women from preaching because it would be going against the same word of God that they were preaching. She felt that women were also filled with God’s glory so that they could also reach sinners and bring them to God.
3. Mary Morgan’s death is an act of reform because since her death, her father recognized that drinking his unproductive. Her father promised Mary that he would never touch another drink. After Mary’s death, he became a respectable man in the community who avoided degrading habits of drinking and abandoning his family. A female child’s character is used by the author to show that if the men continued with this drunkenness, the women in future would be trouble. Men would soon be destroyed by alcohol and women will be left without male support in the community. This was a warning to men to stop abusing alcohol and instead go back to their families or they would cause destruction in the family unit in future.
4. Arthur’s story may be interpreted as a critique of the market revolution because he is trying to show how a man realized that he needed to open a business tha...
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