The Eliot Tracts collects for the first time a series of 11
documents published in London between 1643 and 1671 that describe
missionary work by the British among the Indians in New England.
Written by John Eliot, Thomas Shepard, and other intellectual and
political leaders among the colonists, these tracts constitute the
most detailed and sustained record of missionary activity by the
English in the New World in the first century of settlement. They
are also one of our richest sources of ethnographic information
about the Indians of Southern New England in the 17th century as
recorded by the British settlers. In addition to the tracts, the
volume contains two letters written by John Eliot that argue for
the millennialist significance of the missionary work and so
situate the missionaries' project within one of the most important
theological debates of the time.
The introduction establishes the historical and theological
context in which the tracts were written and published. The text of
the tracts and letters is that of the original 17th-century
publications, including interlinear English/Algonquian
translations. Functional variations in relative font size and
spacing have been retained to reproduce the visual organization of
the original documents, though simplified and regularized across
all the tracts to give the volume a visual conformity and
coherence. An index allows readers to trace the record of
particular towns and individual proselytes and missionaries across
the 30 years covered by the tracts, and to follow the contributions
of the different authors as they recount their experiences over
that period.
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