| Response sheet 9, for class, Tuesday | |
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1. In this 1822 reprint of a British missionary report, what was it that made the people described seem somehow acceptable, even though from a very different part of the world, and of a very different religion? 2. Apart from the editorial mocking in this 1835 reprint, let us imagine a more sympathatic audience for this report with respect to other magazines. How did the report create a sense of inhospitality? (Yet that sense of inhospitality was not meant to be a deterrent.) 3. How does this report help the reader to interpret its litany of statistics, so that the reader could evaluate and determine whether these unstable decolonized countries would be friend or foe? What kind of friend? What kind of foe? |