The Foreign Mission School Of Cornwall CT
The Troutbeck Symposium Speaker Series 4: Student Linus Barnes Discusses The Foreign Mission School Of Cornwall CT (1817-1927)
Caught up in the spirit of religious revival unleashed by the Second Great Awakening, The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions out of Boston, founded the Foreign Mission School in Cornwall in 1817. There, over 100 Native American, Chinese, Native Hawaiians and some non-English speaking whites, were trained to bring Christianity back to their communities. Within ten years, however, racial tensions unleashed by the courtship between a Native American student and a white woman from Cornwall brought the school to a violent end.
Linus Barnes, ’23 at Housatonic Valley Regional High School in Falls Village, CT, will present his independent research around Cornwall’s Foreign Mission School (1817-1827) + its complicated legacy.
Saturday, February 25
5-6pm
The Gallery
Troutbeck, 515 Leedsville Rd, Amenia, NY 12501
T: +1(845)789-1555 E: [email protected]
