Samson Occom and the Christian Indians of New England

Originally published in 1899, W. Deloss Love's biography of Samson Occom is a work of its time. 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.

About the author

W. DeLoss Love was a Congregational minister, a history scholar, and businessman. He was educated at Hamilton College and Andover seminary.

Margaret Connell Szasz is professor of history at the University of New Mexico. She is the author of Indian Education in the American Colonies, 1607-1783 and editor of Between Indian and White Worlds: The Cultural Broker.

Summary

This biography tells of a man in the 18th century who embraced many cultures: Christian, yet Mohegan; an ordained Presbyterian minister, yet a business man and fund raiser; a native American speaker, yet fluent in English, Greek, Latin and French. He was also a founder member of Dartmouth College.

Product details

• Authors: W Deloss Love, W. Love, W. Deloss Love, William Deloss Love
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2000
• EAN: 9780815604365
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-0436-5
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 202 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 485 g
• Series: Iroquois and Their Neighbors; Iroquois & Their Neighbors (Pa; The Iroquois and Their Neighbors
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology