HIST 109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Pavel Svinyin, Salutary Neglect, Albany Congress
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The english are iconoclasts because they think that emblems go against the bible. Puritans in new england did not want a cross or jesus to be seen. By not having images of the material divine, it caused uncertainty and openness. English colonists are more likely to fight with each other about images than others. Ministers go outdoors, they take religion to the people rather than expecting people to come to them. It"s not just white men of property, they go to all white men, women, children. Pain and suffering is the universal, the thing they see that they can agree upon. 1730s and 1740s, this is true for most people. The emphasis is on blood (in the painting) They want to drink the blood, they want to catch the blood. Benjamin west - painter with the most ability in the colonies. An example of mercantilism", the goods get transferred to the center.
