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300 Year Old Proposal To “Convert Americans”
A proposal written by an Irish Bishop almost 300 years ago called for a college to be set up in Bermuda to help convert the “savage Americans to Christianity.” The report bemoaned the lack of progress made by the gospel in the New World, and said the Americans continue in “the same ignorance and barbarifm [sic] in which we found them... Read more of this article
George Berkeley’s ‘Bermuda Group’
In 1729, Anglo-Irish cleric and philosopher Dean George Berkeley [1685-1753] set out from London to found a college in Bermuda “for the better supplying of churches in our foreign plantations and for converting the savage Americans to Christianity.” Bermuda would provide the ideal setting for the philosopher’s social and educational... Read more of this article
