The Poor Indians: British Missionaries, Native Americans, and Colonial SensibilityUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 24 nov. 2010 - 272 pages Between the English Civil War of 1642 and the American Revolution, countless British missionaries announced their intention to "spread the gospel" among the native North American population. Despite the scope of their endeavors, they converted only a handful of American Indians to Christianity. Their attempts to secure moral and financial support at home proved much more successful. |
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... Cotton Mather to the Indians of New England configured “pity” in this way: “[I]t is God that has caused us to desire his glory in your salvation; and our hearts have bled with pity over you, when we have seen how horribly the devil ...
... Cotton Mather's India Christiana (1721), Experience Mayhew's Indian converts (1727), and Samuel Hopkins's Historical Memoirs, Relating to the Housatunnuk Indians (1753). Texts including Thomas Thorowgood's Iewes in America, or ...
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Table des matières
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Husbandry and Trade in Missionary Writings | 34 |
Epistolarity and Transatlantic Community | 62 |
The Role of the Missionary Society | 84 |
The Sermons of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts | 111 |
Emotional Expenditure and Transatlantic Ties in Brainerds and Sergeants Biographies | 138 |
The Christian Origins of the Vanishing Indian | 160 |
Conclusion | 195 |
Notes | 203 |
Index | 249 |
Acknowledgments | 261 |