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Native Apostles NA t i v e A p o s t l e s Black and Indian Missionaries in the British Atlantic World Edward E. a ndrEws Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England 2013 Copyright © 2013 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Andrews, Edward E., 1979– Native apostles : Black and Indian missionaries in the British Atlantic world / Edward E. Andrews. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 978-0-674-07246-6 1. Missions—History. 2. Indigenous peoples. 3.Missionaries. 4. African American missionaries. 5. British—Atlantic Ocean Region—History. 6. United States—History—Colonial period, ca. 1600–1775. 7. Great Britain—Colonies— America—History. I. Title. BV2120.A53 2013 266.0089'960171241—dc23 2012034736 For Mary Contents List of Illustrations ix Introduction 1 1 Apostles to the Indians 21 2 The Expansion of the Indigenous Missionary Enterprise 55 3 Slave Preachers and Indian Separatism 87 4 A Black among Blacks 125 5 Native Evangelists in the Iroquoian Borderlands 151 6 Afro- Christian Evangelism and Indian Missions 187 Conclusion 223 Appendix: Table of Native Missionaries 231 Notes 263 Note on Sources 311 Acknowledgments 315 Index 317 Illustrations Olaudah Equiano 3 Seal of the Massachusetts Bay Colony 26 Map of early New England native missions 30 Seal of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts 69 Hendrick, or Tee Yee Neen Ho Ga Row 74 Johann Valentin Haidt, First Fruits, 1747 91 Cornelius, an Afro- Caribbean Moravian preacher 97 Cape Coast Castle 135 Peter Paulus teaching Canadian Mohawks 158 Good Peter 160 Samson Occom 171 Ezra Stiles 211 Richard Allen 226

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As Protestantism expanded across the Atlantic world in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, most evangelists were not white Anglo-Americans, as scholars have long assumed, but members of the same groups that missionaries were trying to convert. Native Apostles offers one of the most significant
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