A Narrative of Five Youth from the Sandwich Islands, Now Rece... by American Board of Commissio...5/24/2023 ![]() Label A Narrative of five youth from the Sandwich Islands, now receiving an education in this country. ![]() "Extract from the minutes of the agency, appointed as above, to establish and conduct a school for the education of heathen youth."-p.39-40, concerning the appointment of agents to establish a school for the education of heathen youth "Extract from the minutes of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, at their seventh annual meeting in Hartford.Cover title: A Narrative of five youth from the Sandwich Islands, viz: Obookiah, Hopoo, Tennooe, Honoree, and Prince Tamoree, now receiving an education in this country."This publication, which aroused all New England to the plight of the natives 'suffering in ignorance of Christianity,' was directly responsible for public support of the Foreign Mission School and ultimately the beginning of the movement that sent missionaries to Hawaii in 1819." Cf. ![]()
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