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Contents

Introduction: “The Common Bowels of Pity to the Miserable”

1 Gold for Glass, Seeds to Fruit: Husbandry and Trade in Missionary Writings

2 “I Have Received Your Christian and Very Loving Letter”: Epistolarity and Transatlantic Community

3 “The Reservoir of National Charity”: The Role of the Missionary Society

4 Indians, Deists, and the Anglican Quest for Compassion: The Sermons of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts

5 The Sacrifice of Self: Emotional Expenditure and Transatlantic Ties in Brainerd’s and Sergeant’s Biographies

6 “Like Snow Against the Sun”: The Christian Origins of the Vanishing Indian

Conclusion

Notes

Index

Acknowledgments