1863 PETER CARTWRIGHT. A Letter Purporting to be from the Devil. Before Screwtape Letters. Slavery Perhaps the most radical abolitionist

Perhaps the most radical abolitionist of the bunch

Speaks positively of the revival then ongoing

equally free and independent

and judicial writings exerted for many years a powerful influence

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1863 PETER CARTWRIGHT. A Letter Purporting to be from the Devil. Before Screwtape Letters. Slavery Perhaps the most radical abolitionistAn exceptionally rare imprint, self published, of Peter Cartwright's "Letter from the Devil." He had become engaged in a controversy with several Kentucky divines, who together wrote a congratulatory letter to him from the Devil, affirming that his camp meeting, Arminian, revivalist, experimental preaching was directly at the direction of the Devil to Cartwright. The letter is included here, and then Cartwright's equally analogical response counter