Scottish Highlanders and Native Americans: Indigenous Education in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

by Margaret Connell Szasz and Szasz

Book Overview

The Society in Scotland for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge (SSPCK) was founded in 1709 by Scottish Lowlanders for the education of Highlanders: specifically to convert them from the Gaelic language to English, from the Episcopal faith to Presbyterianism, and from latent Jacobitism to loyalty to the crown. In a transatlantic translation of this effort, the "Scottish Society" also established itself in the New World to educate and assimilate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806191953
• ISBN13: 9780806191959
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"