Publication

1980 - Free Press, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

75,500 words, Guess

Page Count

302 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC286/.1/0922
  • LCCBX6493 .B73
  • LCCBX6493 .B73x 1980
and 1 more
  • LCCBX6493.B73

Description

Adoniram Judson (1788-1850) was born at Malden and reared at Plymouth, Massachusetts, and was the first American to become a fully committed evangelical foreign missionary, first for the Congregationalists in 1812, but almost immediately for the American Baptists. He served chiefly in Burma, married three times (his first two wives died in mission field, and the third was a fiction writer who thereafter used her talents as a missionary publicist)--and was notable for his will- ingness to use popular cultural forms to push the cause of religion. Descendants lived in New York, Pennsylvania and elsewhere.

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Other Editions

  • Mission for life: the story of the family of Adoniram Judson, the dramatic events of the first American foreign mission, and the course of evangelical religion in the nineteenth centuryFree Press1980-01-01

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