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The wishes of the author’s associates abroad, and the friends of missions at home, induced the compiler to attempt the preparation of this memoir, though it was undertaken amidst the distractions and multiplied engagements of a visit to his native land, which the claims of the heathen forbade him to protract. As a member of the American Mission in Ceylon for 13 years from 1820 to 1833, she gives an account of her observation and experience. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more. It is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. It contains also two illustrations.
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Paperback. Condition: New. Language: English. About the Book:-The wishes of the authorÕs associates abroad, and the friends of missions at home, induced the compiler to attempt the preparation of this memoir, though it was undertaken amidst the distractions and multiplied engagements of a visit to his native land, which the claims of the heathen forbade him to protract. As a member of the American Mission in Ceylon for 13 years from 1820 to 1833, she gives an account of her observation and experience. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more. It is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. It contains also two illustrations. About the Author:-Miron Winslow was an American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions missionary to the American Ceylon Mission, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), where he established a mission at Oodooville and founded a seminary. He founded a mission station at Madras, the first and chief station of the American Madras Mission. He published several books, notably, A History of Missions and A Comprehensive Tamil and English Dictionary of High and Low Tamil, a Tamil to English lexicon which took twenty years of missionary labor to compile 67 thousand Tamil words. This dictionary was based in part on manuscript material of the pastor Joseph Knight, of the London Missionary Society, and the Rev. Samuel Hutchings, of the American mission, and was the most complete dictionary of a modern Indian language published at that time. The book later becomes the basis for the more exhaustive Tamil Lexicon dictionary published by the University of Madras in 1924. The Title 'Memoir Of Mrs. Harriet L. Winslow Thirteen Years A Member Of The American Mission In Ceylon written/authored/edited by Miron Winslow', published in the year 2020. The ISBN 9788121237734 is assigned to the Paperback version of this title. This book has total of pp. 488 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is History. Size of the book is 13.34 x 21.59 cms 488. Seller Inventory # PB1111011296076