Abstract
In the seventeenth century, John Eliot's Native American converts performed conversion narratives before Puritan elders. Translated, transcribed, and edited for publication in missionary tracts, these confessions demonstrate how converts mapped their own perspectives onto the apparently restrictive form of this Puritan genre, developing distinctive tropes and themes.
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2014
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