Samson Occom and the Christian Indians of New EnglandW. Deloss love's biography of Samson Occom is a work of in time. Long out of print, this classic account reveals one of the most unusual actors to step on stage in the eighteenth-century American colonies. Mohegan yet Christian, a native speaker of Mohegan and fluent in English-and literate in Greek, Latin, and French-Occom strode across the cultures of his time and place. Occom was a man passionate about his advocacy for Native Americans in education and religious training. An ordained Presbyterian minister, he was a spiritual and educational broker among cultures immersed in an era of tumultuous change. As a businessman, he secured the funding necessary for the creation of Dartmouth College. He 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. |
Contents
CHAPTER II | 21 |
CHAPTER III | 42 |
WHEELOCKS INDIAN CHARITY SCHOOL | 56 |
CHAPTER V | 82 |
CHAPTER VI | 105 |
CHAPTER VII | 119 |
THE INDIAN PREACHER IN ENGLAND | 130 |
CHAPTER IX | 152 |
CHAPTER XI | 188 |
CHAPTER XII | 207 |
CHAPTER XIII | 231 |
CHAPTER XIV | 247 |
CHAPTER XV | 283 |
CHAPTER XVI | 299 |
CHAPTER XVII | 316 |
Family History of the Brothertown Indians | 335 |
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