Oliver Hart
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Works by Oliver Hart
(1723-1795)
| 1775 | Diary to the Backcountry. During a three-month stretch, the fervent patriot traveled through western Carolina, trying to convince backcountry settlers to support independence. His diary gives a rare look into the politics of the frontier. It would be first published as Oliver Hart's Diary to the Backcountry in 1975. |
| 1777 | "The Character of a Truly Great Man Delineated, and His Death Deplored as a Public Loss. Occasioned by the Death of the Rev. William Tennant." Hart--the most influential Baptist minister in revolutionary South Carolina and an outspoken supporter of interdenominational cooperation--publishes this sermon supporting the disestablishment of the Anglican Church in South Carolina. The work displays the limits of Hart's belief in religious diversity and demonstrates his ardent nationalism. |
| 1778 | "Dancing Exploded." This sermon displays the famous minister's tendency to dictate moral principles. Here he warns the residents of Charlestown, South Carolina, against the decadence of balls and social gatherings, which are dear to the social life of Charleston's elite. Hart reminds them that a war is going on, a time to give up the "vanities of life." |
| 1789 | America's Remembrancer. The final published work from the Baptist minister who had moved to New Jersey from South Carolina when the British captured Charleston in 1780. The work praises the Revolution as America's fate, a mark of God's will in history. |
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Oliver J. Hart
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"Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other."
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