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Travel, missionaries Digital Collection

Missionary biography was a traditional Protestant form of inspirational literature and a staple of Sunday school books. Like the gospels themselves, these books sought to relate the history of evangelism throughout the world and to present exemplary lives on which to model one's own spiritual life. As such, they reveal much of the attitudes of missionaries toward the lands they visited and worked in, and toward the people they tried to convert.

Typically, the works are a mixture of hagiography, piety, candor, struggle, and prejudice. They also reveal much of the teaching methods and growing debates about instruction that informed the rise of Sunday school literature as a whole.

— Stephen Rachman, Department of English, Michigan State University

Items in the Travel, missionaries collection:

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	Title: Arctic Travels: or, An Account of the Several Land Expeditions to Determine the Geography of the Northern Part of the American Continent	Publisher: New York: Carlton & Porter, 1857	Author(s): Author Unknown		unknown or unavailable	Available Format(s): jpg
	Title: Colman and Wheelock: or, The Early Called of the Burman Mission	Publisher: Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1853	Author(s): Author Unknown		unknown or unavailable	Available Format(s): jpg
	Title: Congo's Kraal	Publisher: Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 18--?	Author(s): Author Unknown		unknown or unavailable	Available Format(s): jpg
	Title: Customs and Anecdotes of the Greenlanders	Publisher: Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 18--?	Author(s): Author Unknown		unknown or unavailable	Available Format(s): jpg
	Title: Life of Mrs. Ann H. Judson, Late Missionary to Burmah	Publisher: Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1830	Author(s): Knowles, James D.		unknown or unavailable	Available Format(s): jpg
	Title: Strangers in Greenland	Publisher: New York: American Tract Society, 18--?	Author(s): Author Unknown		unknown or unavailable	Available Format(s): jpg
	Title: The African Orphan Boy	Publisher: New York: American Tract Society, 18--?	Author(s): Author Unknown		unknown or unavailable	Available Format(s): jpg
	Title: The Life of Africaner, a Namacqua Chief of South Africa	Publisher: Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 18--?	Author(s): Author Unknown		unknown or unavailable	Available Format(s): jpg
	Title: The Persian Christian	Publisher: New York: American Tract Society, 18--?	Author(s): Author Unknown		unknown or unavailable	Available Format(s): jpg
	Title: The Tower of London	Publisher: New York: American Tract Society, 18--?	Author(s): Author Unknown		unknown or unavailable	Available Format(s): jpg
	Title: Traveller's Wonders	Publisher: New York: American Tract Society, 1830	Author(s): Author Unknown		unknown or unavailable	Available Format(s): jpg
	Title: Visit to the Chinese Coast	Publisher: New York: American Tract Society, 18--?	Author(s): Gutzlaff, Rev. Charles		unknown or unavailable	Available Format(s): jpg