Samson Occom and the Christian Indians of New EnglandHe proved to be a dominant and influential presence in the eighteenth-century world of the Great Awakening of the 1740s, the War of Independence, and the emergence of the Young Republic." "Drawing on primary source material - manuscript collections, Occom's diaries and letters - Love brings a vast historical knowledge and a degree of critical evidence unmatched by any recent modern work on Occom."--BOOK JACKET. |
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CHAPTER II | 21 |
CHAPTER III | 42 |
WHEELOCKS INDIAN CHARITY SCHOOL | 56 |
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