Dwight Mission in Arkansas
Author: Jason M. Brown
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Published: 2013
Total Pages: 390
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDwight Mission was established in Arkansas among the Cherokees from 1820 until 1828 when the Cherokees were removed further west. While serving in the wilderness of Arkansas, Cephas Washburn, Alfred Finney and others carried on sporadic correspondence with Jeremiah Evarts, the Corresponding Secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. This thesis includes a selection of these letters, providing an important primary source for academic and local historians interested in the early history of Pope County. These letters reflect the emotional toll the service took on the missionaries, their contact with Southern slavery and racism, and the struggle to establish Dwight Mission in the isolated Arkansas River Valley. Those interested in the missionary endeavors of the early nineteenth century Congregationalists will also benefit from these letters, as they track Washburn from his early service as an agent soliciting donations in Georgia through his removal with the Arkansas Cherokee in 1829.