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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 337 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The astonishing story of a unique missionary project -- and the America it embodied -- from 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...
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