The Poor Indians: British Missionaries, Native Americans, and Colonial Sensibility
Laura M. Stevens
272 pages | 6 x 9 | 5 illus.
Cloth 2004 | ISBN 0-8122-3812-5 | $39.95s| £ 26.00
Paper August 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-1967-8 | $24.95s | £ 16.50
Missionary work, arising from a sense of pity, helped convince the British that they were a benevolent people. Stevens relates this to the rise of the cult of sensibility, when philosophers argued that humans were inherently good because they felt sorrow at the sign of suffering.
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