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Author Stevens, Laura M

Title The poor Indians : British missionaries, Native Americans, and colonial sensibility / Laura M. Stevens
Published Philadelphia [Pa.] : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (264 pages) : illustrations
Series Early American studies
Early American studies.
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: "The Common Bowels of Pity to the Miserable" -- 1 Gold for Glass, Seeds to Fruit: Husbandry and Trade in Missionary Writings -- 2 "I Have Received Your Christian and Very Loving Letter": Epistolarity and Transatlantic Community -- 3 "The Reservoir of National Charity": The Role of the Missionary Society -- 4 Indians, Deists, and the Anglican Quest for Compassion: The Sermons of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts -- 5 The Sacrifice of Self: Emotional Expenditure and Transatlantic Ties in Brainerdi and Sergeant's Biographies -- 6 "Like Snow Against the Sun": The Christian Origins of the Vanishing Indian -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-247) and index
Notes In English
Print version record
Subject Indians of North America -- Missions.
Indians of North America -- Public opinion.
Indians of North America -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Missionaries -- Great Britain -- Attitudes
Anglicans -- Missions -- United States -- History
Protestants -- Missions -- United States -- History
Public opinion -- Great Britain
HISTORY -- United States -- Colonial Period (1600-1775)
British colonies
Indians of North America -- Colonial period
Indians of North America -- Missions
Indians of North America -- Public opinion
Missionaries -- Attitudes
Protestants -- Missions
Public opinion
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Colonies -- America. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056660
United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140131
Subject America
Great Britain
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004042027
ISBN 9780812203080
0812203089
9780812238129
0812238125