"Whereupon, Manoncue, another chief, arose and said,"I also have a few words to say in addition to what my friend has said, who has just taken his seat. I do not doubt but what you state faithfully what your book says; but let me correct an error into which you appear to have run, and that is, your belief that the Great Spirit designed that his red children should be instructed out of it. This is a mistake, the Great Spirit never designed this to be the case; he never intended that they should be instructed out of a book, a thing which properly belongs to those who made it and can understand what it says; it is a plant that cannot grow and flourish among red people..."

The Missionary Pioneer, or A Brief Memoir of the Life, Labours, and Death of John Stewart

Electronic Edition.
Mitchell, Joseph

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(title page) The Missionary Pioneer, or A Brief Memoir of the Life, Labours, and Death of John Stewart, (Man of Colour,) Founder, under God of the Mission among the Wyandotts at Upper Sandusky, Ohio.

Joseph Mitchell  96 p.
New-York
Printed by J. C. Totten
1827

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Library of Congress Subject Headings, 21st edition, 1999

 LC Subject Headings:
• Stewart, John, 1786?-1823.
• African Americans -- Virginia -- Biography.
• African Americans -- Ohio -- Biography.
• African American missionaries -- Ohio -- Biography.
• Wyandot Indians -- Missions -- Ohio.
• Indians of North America -- Missions -- Ohio.
• Methodist Church -- Missions -- Ohio.
• Missions -- Ohio.
• United States -- Church history.
• 2000-04-05,

Celine Noel and Wanda Gunther

revised TEIHeader and created catalog record for the electronic edition.

• 1999-10-21,
Natalia Smith, project manager,
finished TEI-conformant encoding and final proofing.

• 1999-10-19,
Kevin O'Kelly
finished TEI/SGML encoding

• 1999-09-29,
Fiona Mills
finished scanning (OCR) and proofing.