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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... Soul.” The process by which Crusoe sublimated his hatred and his fear into heroic violence and evangelical fervor, while distinguishing himself from the cruel Spanish, has been a common one in the history of Britain's Colonial ...
... souls, which prompted declarations of hopes to convert them to Protestant Christianity. It explores what this emotion, as articulated in missionary writings, tells us about seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British attitudes to ...
... souls, they made benevolence Central to an ideology of Englishness or Scottishness, and later of Britishness. The writings acknowledged a Christian mission to America as their duty, but they described it as a fervent desire generated ...
... souls, but giving funds to carry out this claim is another matter. What gains did donors think they were getting for their generosity? Was it the case that, as Smith's work might suggest, they were “occupied in contemplating the more ...
... souls united all Britons, in Britain and America, in a shared endeavor. Several marginal groups also claimed that missionary projects generated from shared pity for Indians would contribute to national solidarity and strength in order ...
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 |