Heathen School A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic

Name: Heathen School A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic
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ISBN: 9780679781127

ISBN-10: 0679781129

ISBN-13: 9780679781127

Edition: 2014

Authors: John Demos

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The astonishing story of a unique missionary project--and the America it embodied--from award-winning historian John Demos.Near the start of the nineteenth century, as the newly established United States looked outward toward the wider world, a group of eminent Protestant ministers formed a grand scheme for gathering the rest of mankind into the redemptive fold of Christianity and "civilization." Its core element was a special school for "heathen youth" drawn from all parts of the earth, including the Pacific Islands, China, India, and, increasingly, the native nations of North America. If all went well, graduates would return to join similar projects in their respective homelands. For some…

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List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/2/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English

John Demosis Samuel Knight Professor of History at Yale University and the foremost scholar of early American witchcraft. He is the author of Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New Englandand The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America.