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By Meredith Henne Baker
A shiny and bustling urban, Richmond used to be synonymous with horse races, playing, and frivolity. The grotesque hearth amplified the capital’s acceptance for vice and ended in an upsurge in antitheater feedback that unfold through the kingdom and around the Atlantic. Clerics in either the United States and out of the country suggested nationwide repentance and denounced the degree, a sentiment that just about destroyed theatrical leisure in Richmond for many years. neighborhood church buildings, against this, skilled an increase in attendance and have become more and more evangelical.
In The Richmond Theater hearth, the 1st publication concerning the occasion and its aftermath, Meredith Henne Baker explores a forgotten disaster and its extensive societal impression. the tale of transformation comes alive via survivor debts of slaves, actresses, ministers, and statesmen. Investigating inner most letters, diaries, and sermons, between different infrequent or unpublished files, Baker perspectives the development and its results throughout the attention-grabbing lenses of early nineteenth-century theater, structure, and religion, and divulges a wealthy and very important untold tale from America’s past.
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