Race And Religion In The Eighteenth Century

Throughout the late eighteenth century Americans began to create new meanings of race and religion. The new-found changes whites made in response to their affiliations with the Indian tribes significantly shaped the race, religion, and economic life. With the nation enmeshed in a sixty-year war against tribes from the Ohio Country, bureaucrats and missionaries debated if Indians had the ability to find a place within the nation. Contemporaneously, in Oneida country in upstate New York, Indians from nearly one dozen tribes held gatherings to discuss race and becoming one solid nation. Beginning with the great awakening of the 1740’s, Indians throughout the northeast adopted Christianity in ever greater numbers, culminating in the decision of