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082 0 4 _a266/.02341/008997
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aStevens, Laura M.
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Poor Indians :
_bBritish Missionaries, Native Americans, and Colonial Sensibility /
_cLaura M. Stevens.
264 1 _aPhiladelphia :
_bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,
_c[2010]
264 4 _c©2004
300 _a1 online resource (272 p.) :
_b5 illus.
336 _atext
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490 0 _aEarly American Studies
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIntroduction: "The Common Bowels of Pity to the Miserable" --
_t1 Gold for Glass, Seeds to Fruit: Husbandry and Trade in Missionary Writings --
_t2 "I Have Received Your Christian and Very Loving Letter": Epistolarity and Transatlantic Community --
_t3 "The Reservoir of National Charity": The Role of the Missionary Society --
_t4 Indians, Deists, and the Anglican Quest for Compassion: The Sermons of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts --
_t5 The Sacrifice of Self: Emotional Expenditure and Transatlantic Ties in Brainerdi and Sergeant's Biographies --
_t6 "Like Snow Against the Sun": The Christian Origins of the Vanishing Indian --
_tConclusion --
_tNotes --
_tIndex --
_tAcknowledgments
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aBetween 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.In The Poor Indians, Laura Stevens delves deeply into the language and ideology British missionaries used to gain support, and she examines their wider cultural significance. Invoking pity and compassion for "the poor Indian"-a purely fictional construct-British missionaries used the Black Legend of cruelties perpetrated by Spanish conquistadors to contrast their own projects with those of Catholic missionaries, whose methods were often brutal and deceitful. They also tapped into a remarkably effective means of swaying British Christians by connecting the latter's feelings of religious superiority with moral obligation. Describing mission work through metaphors of commerce, missionaries asked their readers in England to invest, financially and emotionally, in the cultivation of Indian souls. As they saved Indians from afar, supporters renewed their own faith, strengthened the empire against the corrosive effects of paganism, and invested in British Christianity with philanthropic fervor.The Poor Indians thus uncovers the importance of religious feeling and commercial metaphor in strengthening imperial identity and colonial ties, and it shows how missionary writings helped fashion British subjects who were self-consciously transatlantic and imperial because they were religious, sentimental, and actively charitable.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022)
650 4 _aAmerican History.
650 7 _aHISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775).
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653 _aAmerican History.
653 _aAmerican Studies.
653 _aHistory.
653 _aNative American Studies.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.9783/9780812203080
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812203080
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