Samson Occom, letter, to Susanna Wheatley, 5 March 1771

An article about the Occom Circle has just been published in the open-access scholarly journal Common-Place: The Journal of Early American Life.

Lauren Grewe’s “Samson Occom’s Missionary Correspondence and the Common Pot” contextualizes Occom’s correspondence within intellectual networks of Native and African American missionary writers.

The journal issue, edited by Jonathan Beecher Field, spotlights the work of of emerging scholars introducing open-access digital texts in Early American Studies.