Native Apostles marshals wide-ranging research to shed light on the crucial role of Native Americans, Africans, and black slaves in Protestant missionary work during the 17th and 18th centuries. The work by Edward E. Andrews offers a pioneering view of religion's spread through the colonial world, from New England to the Caribbean, the Carolinas to Africa, Iroquoia to India. It argues that native evangelists often outnumbered their white counterparts and acted as cultural intermediaries who could challenge colonialism.
Use Cases
- Analyzing the role of cultural intermediaries in religious conversion based on the description of native evangelists translating between missionaries and converts.
- Studying networks of kinship and evangelism in colonial settings based on the mention of native evangelists' ability to tap into existing kinship networks.
- Examining the relationship between evangelism, slavery, and dispossession based on the described challenges addressed by native apostles.
- Researching the historical figures of native apostles like Hiacoomes, Good Peter, and Philip Quaque to challenge traditional missionary narratives.
Strengths
- Focuses on a significant untold story in early modern religious encounters, as stated in the description.
- Draws on wide-ranging research covering multiple geographies including New England, the Caribbean, Africa, and India.
- Highlights specific historical figures such as Hiacoomes, Good Peter, Philip Quaque, and John Quamine.
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Provenance
- Source
- Edward E. Andrews
- Collection Method
- Wide-ranging historical research marshalled for the book 'Native Apostles'.
- Time Range
- Seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- Geography
- British Atlantic World, including New England, the Caribbean, the Carolinas, Africa, Iroquoia, India