Expelled from Yale, David Brainerd became a missionary to Native Americans in New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, riding through wilderness in poor health and recording his prayers, despair and hopes in a diary. Jonathan Edwards, in whose house he died in 1747, shaped these extracts into a life; its view of Native peoples is that of an eighteenth-century evangelist.
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