TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stevens,Laura M.
TI  - The Poor Indians: British Missionaries, Native Americans, and Colonial Sensibility
T2  - Early American Studies
SN  - 9780812203080
AV  - E98.M6 -- S75 2004eb 
U1  - 266/.02341/008997 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
KW  - Indians of North America-Missions
KW  - Indians of North America-Public opinion
KW  - Indians of North America-History-Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
KW  - Missionaries-Great Britain-Attitudes
KW  - Anglicans-Missions-United States-History
KW  - Protestants-Missions-United States-History
KW  - Public opinion-Great Britain
KW  - Great Britain-Colonies-America
KW  - United States-History-Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- 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 Brainerd's and Sergeant's Biographies -- 6 "Like Snow Against the Sun": The Christian Origins of the Vanishing Indian -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments
N2  - 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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