Experience Mayhew's <i>Indian Converts</i>: A Cultural Edition

First published in 1727 under the title Indian Converts, or Some account of the lives and dying speeches of a considerable number of the Christianized Indians of Martha's Vineyard, in New-England, Experience Mayhew's history of the Wampanoag Indians on Martha's Vineyard provides a rare look at the lives and culture of four generations of Native Americans in colonial America. Dividing his treatment into four sections -- Indian Ministers, Good Men, Religious Women, and Pious Children -- Mayhew …