Samson Occom | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 12 pages of analysis & critique of Samson Occom.

Samson Occom | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 12 pages of analysis & critique of Samson Occom.
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SOURCE: “Samson Occom, the Famous Indian Preacher of New England,” in Missionary Review of the World, Vol. 33, 1910, pp. 913-19.

In the following essay, Brain offers a survey of Occom's career.

Samson Occom, the foremost Christian Indian of New England, was one of the best-known and most eloquent preachers of his day. Until the close of the last century his story was but little known; but now, thanks to the exhaustive researches of Dr. W. De Loss Love, we have a full account of his life and the times in which he lived and worked.1

Occom was born in 1723 in a wigwam in the Indian village of Mohegan, not far from New London, Conn. His father, Joshua Ockham, Aucom or Mawcum, as the name is variously spelled, seems to have been a man of some distinction in his tribe; while his mother, who soon figures in the records as...

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This section contains 3,267 words
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