A Sermon Preached by Samson Occom, Minister of the Gospel, and Missionary to the Indians; at the Execution of Moses Paul, an Indian: Who was executed at New-Haven, September 2, 1772, for the murder of Moses Cook, late of Waterbury, on the seventh of December 1771; preached at the desire of said Paul
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Author/Creator
Samson Occom
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 4, no. 2/3, Series 2, Summer/Fall, 1992, pp. 82-105
Description
Looks at Occom's sermon, published in the late eighteenth century, which discusses how alcohol devastated Indian families. It is an example of how an Indian author adapted Western European theology and a literary genre for his own purposes.
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