British missionaries, Native Americans, and colonial sensibility /
Laura M. Stevens
Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
c2004
264 p. :
ill. ;
24 cm
Early American studies
Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-247) and index
Gold for glass, seeds to fruit: husbandry and trade in missionary writings -- "I have received your Christian and very loving letter": Epistolarity and transatlantic community -- "The reservoir of National Charity": the role of the missionary society -- Indians, deists, and the Anglican quest for compassion: the sermons of the Society for the propagation of the Gospel in foreign parts -- The sacrifice of self: emotional expenditure and transatlantic ties in Brainerd's and Sergeant's biographies -- "Like snow against the sun": the Christian origins of the vanishing Indian
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Anglicans-- Missions-- United States-- History
Indians of North America-- History-- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Indians of North America-- Missions
Indians of North America-- Public opinion
Missionaries-- Great Britain-- Attitudes
Protestants-- Missions-- United States-- History
Public opinion-- Great Britain
Great Britain, Colonies, America
United States, History, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775