Educating the Heathen:
the Foreign Mission School
Controversy and American Ideals
by
John Andrew
At the time of original publication, he
was Associate Professor in the
History Department at Franklin and Marshall College.
Published in 1978, Reprinted in 2007
12 pages

This article written for the “Journal of
American Studies,” presents an example
of the missionary movement with the establishment of a school in Cornwall
and its closure nine years later in 1826. During those years the policy
toward the
non-Christian
— Hawaiians,
Cherokees, Chinese, and others
— changed from
educating them among Americans to sending missionaries to the native
territories. Racial discrimination and mixed marriages were a local scandal
and
exemplified the larger issues of slavery and the Indian policy.
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