The poor Indians : British missionaries, Native Americans, and colonial sensibility
Missionary work, arising from a sense of pity, helped convince the British that they were a benevolent people. Stevens relates this to the rise of the cult of sensibility, when philosophers argued that humans were inherently good because they felt sorrow at the sign of suffering
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University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia [Pa.], ©2004
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Introduction: "The Common Bowels of Pity to the Miserable"1. Gold for Glass, Seeds to Fruit: Husbandry and Trade in Missionary Writings2. "I Have Received Your Christian and Very Loving Letter": Epistolarity and Transatlantic Community3. "The Reservoir of National Charity": The Role of the Missionary Society4. Indians, Deists, and the Anglican Quest for Compassion: The Sermons of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts5. The Sacrifice of Self: Emotional Expenditure and Transatlantic Ties in Brainerd's and Sergeant's Biographies6. "Like Snow Against the Sun": The Christian Origins of the Vanishing IndianConclusionNotesIndexAcknowledgments
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