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Missionary Activities Among The Cherokee Indians, 1757-1838, William Ward Crouch
Missionary Activities Among The Cherokee Indians, 1757-1838, William Ward Crouch
Masters Theses
Introduction: Any historical account of early Indian missions must of necessity find its background in the prevailing political and religious conditions in Europe at the time of the discovery, the exploratlon, and the colonization of the American continent. At the end of the fifteenth century the Commercial Revolution broke upon Europe, and the discovery of America came as a direct result of this revolution. Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the Catholic nations of southern and southwestern Europe were exploring and colonizing parts of both North and South America, excepting the Atlantic coast of North America from Florida to the …
The Confederate Government And The Unionists Of East Tennessee, Beatrice L. Garrett
The Confederate Government And The Unionists Of East Tennessee, Beatrice L. Garrett
Masters Theses
Preface: The events with which this thesis deals left behind them a heritage of hatred, bitterness, and prejudice. In the years immediately following the Civil War, those persons who were by birth or by nature "Northern" in sentiment stubbornly believed that the Confederate government overstepped the bounds of civilized warfare - that it was unnecessarily and maliciously cruel to the Unionists of East Tennessee. On the other hand, those of "Southern" sentiment despised the East Tennessee Unionists as traitors to their state and friends - as persons wholly untrustworthy and treacherous.
I have not sought to either condemn or justify …