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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... Letter'': Epistolarity and Transatlantic Community 62 “The Reservoir of National Charity”: The Role of the Missionary Society 84 Indians, Deists, and the Anglican Quest for Compassion: The Sermons of the Society for the Propagation of ...
... letters, tracts, and even a few poems. Ironically, these writings are the primary accomplishment of British mission in the American colonies, as their influence often exceeded the effectiveness of the projects they were written to ...
... letters, and reports written by ministers trying to covert American Indians and other non-Christian peoples, but it also includes sermons, letters, and genres usually marked as literary, written by people raising money for, or merely ...
... letters printed for this project may have provided a model for later writings, they did not have to demand their audience's attention within the larger and less regulated print culture that developed during the English Civil War.” They ...
... letters from supporters, and pleas for money, prayers, and supplies.” It also subsidized the publishing of Algonquian translations of the Bible, an Indian primer, and several religious tracts, which John Eliot completed with the help of ...
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 |