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Children and Empire

Edited by Cheryl M. Cassidy; Andrea Kaston Tange

  • Published: 14 Dec 2012
  • DOI: 10.4324/9780415578370
  • Set ISBN: 978-0-41557-837-0

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The 'Civilizing' Mission Education, Morality, and Conversion

In 1893, a young American Negro missionary named Nancy Jones wrote to her missionary friends at home about her life in a remote missionary station in Africa (“Letter” 347). As a Negro missionary, in a time when memories of slavery were still present in the public consciousness, Nancy Jones was unusual in the ranks of young women sent to evangelize women and children for the American Protestant women’s foreign missionary movement. Yet, Jones was typical of young American missionary women who saw missionary work overseas as a way to combine a professional life with spiritual endeavor. Throughout the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth century, hundreds of young American and British women were sent from Protestant denominational societies to evangelize heathens overseas. From Argentina to Japan, young American and British women founded hospitals, schools, and missionary posts to elevate heathen women and children to Western standards. Their focus on children was instrumental in promoting both an evangelical and an imperialistic imperative.

Volume Contents

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    Front Matter
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    Introduction By Cheryl Cassidy
  • Evangelism/Conversion
    • Global
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        “An Irish Boy’s Legacy to the Holy Childhood,” The Irish Monthly 13.150, 1885, p. 6571.
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        The Children’s Missionary Newspaper, December 1843, pp. 1–8 and January 1844, pp. 9–16.
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        “‘Junior Work’: Christian Endeavor Societies in Mission Lands,” Life and Light for Woman, February 1895, pp. 62–9. By Miss S. Louise Day
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        “Poor Abraham,” The Juvenile Missionary Herald, London: J. Heaton & Son,1860, p. 24. By Rev. John Gregson
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        Under Marching Orders: A Story of Mary Porter Gamewell, New York: The Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, 1909, pp. 3–15. By Ethel Daniels Hubbard; Mary Porter Gamewell
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        “Human Sacrifices,” The Missionary Magazine and Chronicle CXIX, 1846, frontispiece, pp. 50–1.
    • Americas
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        “Jewish Child-Saving in the U.S.,” Charities Review 6, July 1897, pp. 438–40. By M. Heymann
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        Tah-Koo Wah-Kan: The Gospel Among the Dakotas, Boston: Congregational-Sabbath School and Publishing Society, 1869, pp. 36–53, 401–7. By Stephen R. Riggs
    • Asia
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        “The Missionary in India, Extracted from a Letter of the Rev. John Gregson, Agra,” The Juvenile Missionary Herald, London: J. Heaton & Son, 1860, pp. 63–5.
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        Behind the Purdah, or the Lives and Legends of our Hindu Sisters, Calcutta & Simla: Thacker, Spink & Co., 1916, pp. 1–11. By Milly Cattell
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        “A Half Day among the Zenanas,” Heathen Woman’s Friend, October 1892, pp. 79–81. By Emma Dense
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        “A Day in the Zenanas,” Woman’s Missionary Friend, October 1898, pp. 115–16. By Mrs Ada Lee
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        South Indian Sketches, vol. 1, London: James Nisbet, 1848, pp. 1–17. By Sarah Tucker
    • Pacific
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        History of the Sandwich Islands Mission, Boston: Congregational Publishing Society, 1870, pp. 26–31, 178–82, 240–8, 265–70. By Rufus Anderson
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        The Life and Times of Mrs. Lucy G. Thurston, Ann Arbor, Michigan: S. C. Andrews, 1882, pp. 125–36, 143–4, 147–54. By Lucy Goodale Thurston
  • Education
    • Africa
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        “East Central Africa. Life in a New Station, Mount Silinda, Gazaland,” Life and Light for Woman, December 1894, pp. 589–90. By Miss Nancy Jones
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        “‘Juvenile Department’, Course of Study,” Life and Light for Woman, February 1895, pp. 97–9.
    • Asia
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        “The Pear Flower School of Korea,” Heathen Woman’s Friend, April 1893, frontispiece, p. 230. By Margaretha J. Bengel
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        A Girl’s Winter in India, New York: A. D. F. Randolph, 1892, pp. 84–97. By Mary Carpenter
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        “Orphanages in India,” Woman’s Missionary Friend, October 1897, frontispiece, pp. 91–4. By Mrs Margaret Denning
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        “China. Girls’ Day School at Tung-Cho,” Life and Light for Woman, February 1894, pp. 62–5. By Miss J. G. Evans
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        Blossoms and Fruit of Missionary Work or What Indian Girls Can Do, London: John F. Shaw & Co., 1885, pp. 11–36. By Rev. A. H. Lash
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        “School Comrades in Rangoon,” Woman’s Missionary Friend, June 1896, pp. 331–2. By Fanny A. Perkins
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        “India. Contrasts,” Life and Light for Woman, December 1892, pp. 553–7. By Pauline Root
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        “The Kindergarten in Kobe, Japan,” Life and Light for Woman, October 1892, pp. 459–63. By Pauline Root
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        “Education in India,” The Missionary Review of the World 17, April 1894, pp. 270–4. By The Rev. George Stosch
    • Middle East
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        Ragged Life in Egypt, London: Seeley, Jackson and Halliday, 1863, pp. 48–56, 161–73, 197–208. By Mary Louisa Whately
    • Pacific
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        One Summer in Hawaii, New York: Cassell Publishing Co., 1891, pp. 151–7. By Helen Mather
  • The Child as an Evangelical Tool
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      “Sarah Wang Introduced,” Heathen Woman’s Friend, January 1893, pp. 168–9. By Clara M. Cushman
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      “A Zulu Christian—The Story of Ella,” Life and Light for Woman, August 1895, pp. 364–6. By Miss H. J. Gilson
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      “India. Self-Offering,” Life and Light for Woman, August, 1891, pp. 394–8. By Mrs. Edward S. Hume
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      Seven Heroic Children: A Great Sorrow and a Great Victory, London: Morgan and Scott, 1906, pp. 29–45; includes frontispiece and two pages of photographs. By Mrs Ada Lee
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      “Chinese Women,” Heathen Woman’s Friend, January 1893, p. 169. By Sarah Wang Liu
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      “The Story of Ting Chio, Our ‘Precious Pearl’,” Life and Light for Woman, February 1894, pp. 57–60. By Miss Ella J. Newton
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      “The Girls’ Normal School in Madura,” Life and Light for Woman, July 1893, pp. 364–7. By Miss B. B. Noyes
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      “The Girl We Have But May Not Keep,” Heathen Woman’s Friend, October 1892, pp. 84–6. By Rev. N. L. Rockey
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      The History of Little Henry and His Bearer, London: F. Houston & Son, 1816, pp. 12–17, 26–9, 129–39. By Mary Martha Sherwood