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Experiences of Five Christian Indians of the Pequod Tribe
Our edition · 1833 · 72 pages
Experiences of Five Christian Indians of the Pequod Tribe
by William Apess
William Apess (Pequot) gathers the conversion testimonies of five Christian Pequots — among them himself and his wife, Mary — and appends his famous essay "An Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man," one of the earliest Native critiques of racial hypocrisy in the church, argued from Scripture.
The changed life
Each of the five voices recounts being brought from sorrow and sin to faith in Christ. For Apess, the same gospel that converted him also condemned the color line: if all are of one blood, the looking-glass asks, where is the warrant for contempt?
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