The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic
- ISBN-10
- 0679455108
- ISBN-13
- 9780679455103
- Category
- Cornwall (Conn.)
- Pages
- 337
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Author
- John Demos
Description
Documents the story of a nineteenth-century missionary project that reflected the Christian views of a fledgling U.S., tracing how the successes of a Christian school were eventually tested by interracial marriages and bitter controversies.
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