Sunday, January 5, 11:00–1:00 p.m.

American Historical Association Annual Meeting Sessions

155. American Protestant Missionaries, "Savage Heathens," and the Underprivileged: Changing Missionary Assessment of Prospective Converts, 1827–1964

Hilton, Private Dining Room 2

Chair: Christopher Miller, University of Texas, Pan American

Papers: "I know of no man on earth whom I loved more": American Missionaries and Their Changing Assessments of the Hawaiian People, 1820–50
Jennifer Fish Kashay, California State University at San Bernadino

Discovering the Heathen in the Self and the Other: ABCFM Missionary Impressions of Native Americans in the Far West, 1836–48
Genevieve McCoy, University of Washington

How the Missionary Gulicks Went from Converting the "Heathen" to Assisting the "Underprivileged," 1827–1964
Clifford Putney, Bentley College

Comment: Franklin Ng, California State University at Fresno

   

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