Samson Occom and the Christian Indians of New England (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780815604365)

W. 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.

Author: W. Deloss Love
ISBN-10: 081560436X
ISBN-13: 9780815604365
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2000
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 7.97h x 5.51w x 0.93d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2000 pg. 36