Native Apostles: Black and Indian Missionaries in the British Atlantic World

337 Pages·2013·2.47 MB·English

by  Edward E. Andrews

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