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Charlotte Atlee White Rowe: The Story of America’s First Appointed Woman Missionary

Charlotte Atlee White Rowe: The Story of America’s First Appointed Woman Missionary BAPTIST QUARTERLY BOOK REVIEW Charlotte Atlee White Rowe: The Story of America’s First Appointed Woman Missionary. Reid S. Trulson, Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2021. Pp. 248; Hardcover, $43.44 USD; ISBN 978-088146-803-8 This is an long overdue book about a Baptist woman missionary who served both Amer- ican and British Baptist organizations. It is overdue because Charlotte’s story has been largely lost over the centuries and much welcomed in a context of increasing impor- tance of the role and accomplishments of Christian women. The author is the retired executive director of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Societies (ABC International Ministries), and himself a former missionary to Europe and the Middle East. The story reflects an administrative orientation in the ‘Missionary Rooms’ of the 1820s and two hundred years later. The saga of Charlotte (1782–1863) reaches back into the first generation of American missionary outreach. First appointed to Burma in 1816 as part of the American Baptist Judson mission, she concluded her overseas service at Digah, a village in the Patna Dis- trict of Bihar Province of Northeast India. For a decade, self-supported and entrepreneur- ial, she administered a network of girl’s and boy’s schools. By virtue of her short-term http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Baptist Quarterly Taylor & Francis

Charlotte Atlee White Rowe: The Story of America’s First Appointed Woman Missionary

Brackney, William H.
Baptist Quarterly , Volume 54 (2): 2 – Apr 3, 2023
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Taylor & Francis
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© The Baptist Historical Society 2021
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2056-7731
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10.1080/0005576X.2021.2013644
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BAPTIST QUARTERLY BOOK REVIEW Charlotte Atlee White Rowe: The Story of America’s First Appointed Woman Missionary. Reid S. Trulson, Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2021. Pp. 248; Hardcover, $43.44 USD; ISBN 978-088146-803-8 This is an long overdue book about a Baptist woman missionary who served both Amer- ican and British Baptist organizations. It is overdue because Charlotte’s story has been largely lost over the centuries and much welcomed in a context of increasing impor- tance of the role and accomplishments of Christian women. The author is the retired executive director of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Societies (ABC International Ministries), and himself a former missionary to Europe and the Middle East. The story reflects an administrative orientation in the ‘Missionary Rooms’ of the 1820s and two hundred years later. The saga of Charlotte (1782–1863) reaches back into the first generation of American missionary outreach. First appointed to Burma in 1816 as part of the American Baptist Judson mission, she concluded her overseas service at Digah, a village in the Patna Dis- trict of Bihar Province of Northeast India. For a decade, self-supported and entrepreneur- ial, she administered a network of girl’s and boy’s schools. By virtue of her short-term

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Published: Apr 3, 2023

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