France and England in North America, Part II: The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century

Name: France and England in North America, Part II: The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century
Author: Francis Parkman

by Francis Parkman (1823–1893)

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"France and England in North America, Part II: The Jesuits in North America in…" by Francis Parkman is a historical work published in 1867. This second volume chronicles the French Jesuit missionaries who arrived in Canada in 1632, documenting their experiences in New France. Drawing extensively from Jesuit letters and reports, particularly those of François Le Mercier, Parkman reconstructs the missionaries' encounters with indigenous peoples and their struggles to establish a religious presence in the wilderness of seventeenth-century North America.

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Canada · History · To 1763 (New France)
Jesuits · Missions · New France · History · 17th century
Wyandot Indians · Missions · New France · History · 17th century

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Part Second

Entered According to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by Francis Parkman, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

CAMBRIDGE:
STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY JOHN WILSON AND SON.

Few passages of history are more striking than those which record the efforts of the earlier French Jesuits to convert the Indians. Full as they are of dramatic and philosophic interest, bearing strongly on the political destinies of America, and closely involved with the history of its native population, it is wonderful that they have been left so long in obscurity. While the infant colonies of England still clung feebly to the shores of the Atlantic, events deeply ominous to their future were in progress, unknown to them, in the very heart of the continent. It will be seen, in the sequel of this volume, that civil and religious liberty found strange allies in this Western World.

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This free edition of France and England in North America, Part II: The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century by Francis Parkman comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #6933, released 2004-11-01. It is in the public domain in the United States, so you can read it here in full at no cost, on any phone, tablet or computer. Genre: History - American, History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750), History - Religious.

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