Notes
Notes 1. Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe: An Antlzoritative Text, Background, and Sources, ed. Michael Shinagel, 2nd ed. (New York: W. W. Norton, 1994))122-24. 2. Ibid., 125. 3. Ibid., 156. 4. Ibid., 158-59. j. I use the words English and Englnizd, or Scottish and Scotluizd, when referring to texts written before the Act of Union between England and Scotland in 1707, and British or Brituiiz when referring to texts appearing during or after 1707.When cornme~lti~lg on groups of texts, ideas, or images that span that date, I usually choose the nlore inclusive ternl, British, especially when that conlnlent applies equally well to the writings, people, or sentiments of England and Scotland. I also use the word Eizglislz as a linguistic ternl, especially when distinguishing then1 from French or Spanish writings. 6. Joseph Conrad, Heurt of Darkness, ed. Robert Kimbrough, 3d ed. (New York: W. W. Norton, 1988),28, 51, 72. 7. Two recent dissertations offer exceptions to the dearth of literary scholarship on this topic. IZeely McCarthy, " 'Reducing Them to Civilitie': Religious Conversions and Cultural Transforn~ations in Protestant Missionary Narratives, 1690-1790" (P11.D. diss., University of Maryland, ~ O O O ) , and Icristina IZae Bross, "'That Epithet of Praying': The Praying Indian Figure in Early New England Literature " (P11.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1997). 8. Thonlas Scanlan, Coloiziul Mrritiizg uizd tlze New World, 1583-1671 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999); Gordon M. Sayre, Les Saul~agesAnzericuiizs : Represeiztutioizs of Native Americuizs iiz Freizclz uizd Eizglislz Coloiziul Literuture (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997). 9. Joshua Bellin, The Denzoiz of the Continent: Indiuns uizd the Shaping of Anzerican Literature (Philadelphia: University of Pe~l~lsylva~lia Press, 2001); Sandra Gustafson, Eloqueizce Is Potver: Orutory uizd Perfornzunce in Eurly Americu (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000); Hilary E. Wyss, Writing Indians: Literacy, Christinizity, uizd Nutive Community iiz Eurly Anzericn (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000). lo. Toni Morrison, Pluyiizg in the Durk: Mrlziteness and the Literary Imuginntion (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992),11. 11. Ibid., 44. 204 Notes to Pages 5-8 12. Matthew 28:19. Unless noted otherwise all Bible quotes are taken from the Authorized King James Version (New York: Fanlily Library, 1973). 13. James I to Toby Matthew, Archbishop of York, February 26, 1615, in "The Collections for Henrico College," by Peter MTalne,Virgiiziu ~bfaguzine of History and Biography 80 (1972):260. 14. Richard W. Cogley, Johiz Eliot's ibfission to the Iizdiaizs before King Philip's War (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999);James A. De Jong,As the Waters Cover tlie Sea: ibfilleiznialExpectatioizs iiz tlie Rise ofAnglo-Americaiz lbfissioizs, 1640-1810 (J.H. IZok N. V. ICampen, 1970). 15. Margaret Connell Szasz, Indian Educatioiz in tlie Americaiz Colonies, 16071783 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1988),62-64. 16. On the centrality of Protestantisnl to British unity, see Linda Colley, Britons : Forging the Nation, 1707-1837 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992),11-54. 17. William Castell, A Petition of 1V.C. Exhibited to the High Covrt of Parliamerit riow assenibled, for tlie propagating of tlie Gospel in America, and tlie West Indies; and for the setling of our Plaritatioris there; which Petition is approved by 70 able Englisli Divines. Also by Master Alexander Henderson, and some other lvortliy Ministers ofscotland (N.p., 1641). 18. Ibid., 6. 19. Ibid., 8-9. 20. See, e.g., Norman Fiering, "Irresistible Compassion: An Aspect of Eighteenth -Century Sympathy and Humanitarianism," Jot~rnul of the History of Ideas 37 (1976):195-218. 21. Thomas Haskell, "Capitalisnl and the Origins of the Humanitarian Sensibility , Part One," in The Antislavery Debate: Capitalism and Abolitioriisni as a Probleni in Historical Interpretation, ed. Thomas Bender (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992),111, 130. 22. Tlie Geneva Bible: A Facsimile of the 1560 Edition, intro. Lloyd E. Berry (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969). On the differences among English Bible translations, see Lisa M. Gordis, Opening Scripture: Bible Reading and Interpretive Authority iiz Purituiz Neiv England (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003); Marvin TV. Anderson, "The Geneva (TomsonIJunius) New Testament among Other English Bibles of the Period," in Tlie Geneva Bible: Tlie Aiznotuted New Testameizt 1602 Edition, ed. Gerald T. Sheppard (New York: Pilgrim, 1989),5-17; S. L. Greenslade , "English Versions of the Bible, 1525-1611,'' Tlie Cambridge History of tlie Bible: Tlie Miestfronz the Reformatioiz to tlie Present Day, ed. S. L. Greenslade (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1963),141-74. 23. J...
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