LEADER 05242nam 22008655 450 001 9910781886403321 005 20210107000554.0 010 $a1-283-21193-9 010 $a9786613211934 010 $a0-8122-0308-9 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812203080 035 $a(CKB)2550000000051309 035 $a(OCoLC)759158222 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10491973 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000544579 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11926032 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000544579 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10553516 035 $a(PQKB)11057424 035 $a(DE-B1597)449207 035 $a(OCoLC)979577923 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812203080 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441516 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000051309 100 $a20190708d2010 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Poor Indians $eBritish Missionaries, Native Americans, and Colonial Sensibility /$fLaura M. Stevens 210 1$aPhiladelphia : $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, $d[2010] 210 4$dİ2004 215 $a1 online resource (273 p.) 225 0 $aEarly American Studies 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-1967-8 327 $t Frontmatter -- $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 330 $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. 606 $aHISTORY$2bisac 606 $aNorth America$2bisac 606 $aIndians of North America$xMissions$yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775$zGreat Britain 606 $aIndians of North America$xPublic opinion$zUnited States 606 $aIndians of North America$xHistory$zUnited States 606 $aMissionaries$xAttitudes$zGreat Britain 606 $aAnglicans$xMissions$xHistory 606 $aProtestants$xHistory$xMissions 606 $aPublic opinion 606 $aGender & Ethnic Studies$2HILCC 606 $aSocial Sciences$2HILCC 606 $aEthnic & Race Studies$2HILCC 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 610 $aHistory. 610 $aNative American Studies. 615 7$aHISTORY 615 7$aNorth America 615 0$aIndians of North America$xMissions 615 0$aIndians of North America$xPublic opinion 615 0$aIndians of North America$xHistory 615 0$aMissionaries$xAttitudes 615 0$aAnglicans$xMissions$xHistory 615 0$aProtestants$xHistory$xMissions 615 0$aPublic opinion 615 7$aGender & Ethnic Studies 615 7$aSocial Sciences 615 7$aEthnic & Race Studies 676 $a266/.02341/008997 700 $aStevens$b Laura M., $01575557 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781886403321 996 $aThe Poor Indians$93852598 997 $aUNINA