Download or read book A Separate Canaan written by Jon F. Sensbach and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In colonial North Carolina, German-speaking settlers from the Moravian Church founded a religious refuge--an ideal society, they hoped, whose blueprint for daily life was the Bible and whose Chief Elder was Christ himself. As the community's demand for labor grew, the Moravian Brethren bought slaves to help operate their farms, shops, and industries. Moravians believed in the universalism of the gospel and baptized dozens of African Americans, who became full members of tightly knit Moravian congregations. For decades, white and black Brethren worked and worshiped together--though white Moravians never abandoned their belief that black slavery was ordained by God. Based on German church documents, including dozens of rare biographies of black Moravians, A Separate Canaan is the first full-length study of contact between people of German and African descent in early America. Exploring the fluidity of race in Revolutionary era America, it highlights the struggle of African Americans to secure their fragile place in a culture unwilling to give them full human rights. In the early nineteenth century, white Moravians forsook their spiritual inclusiveness, installing blacks in a separate church. Just as white Americans throughout the new republic rejected African American equality, the Moravian story illustrates the power of slavery and race to overwhelm other ideals.
Download or read book The Moravians in North Carolina written by Levin Theodore Reichel and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Moravians in North Carolina written by Jennifer Bean Bower and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Members of the Moravian Church who settled in North Carolina were meticulous record keepers, documenting almost every aspect of their day-to-day lives. A significant part of those records is preserved in the form of photographs. Moravian photographers-both professional and amateur-created an enduring legacy by capturing their society and surroundings in faithful detail. Their photographs, which record the towns of Bethabara, Bethania, Salem, Friedberg, Hope, and Friedland, as well as other communities throughout the state, provide a rare glimpse into the historic world of Moravian life in North Carolina.
Download or read book Records of the Moravians in North Carolina written by Adelaide L. Fries and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Records of the Moravians in North Carolina Volume 13 written by C. Daniel Crews and published by North Carolina Division of Archives & History. This book was released on 2006 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of edited church diaries and minute books kept by Moravian ministers covers a momentous period in North Carolina's history--the aftermath and recovery from the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Download or read book Records of the Moravians in North Carolina Volume 12 written by C. Daniel Crews and published by North Carolina Division of Archives & History. This book was released on 2000 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The North Carolina Historical Commission changed its name in the 1950s to the North Carolina Department of Archives and History.
Download or read book History of Wachovia in North Carolina written by John Henry Clewell and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Records of the Moravians in North Carolina 1752 1775 written by Adelaide Lisetta Fries and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Records of the Moravians in North Carolina written by Adelaide Lisetta Fries and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Records of the Moravians in North Carolina 1776 1779 written by Adelaide Lisetta Fries and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Moravian Potters in North Carolina written by John Bivins (Jr.) and published by University of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Wachovia, the various trash pits or middens associated with early Moravian inhabitants, as well as the potters' waster dumps, both in Bethabara and Salem, have provided us with significant insights into an incredibly complex eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century earthenware production. Although local antiquarians and collectors have been aware for many years that pottery constituted one of the largest early industries carried on by the Moravians in North Carolina, it was for the most part only the well-kept archival records that testified to this fact. Fine examples of slip-decorated pottery, as wekk as some utilitarian forms, existed in local collections and in the Wachovia Museum in Old Salem, but it was not until the excavations at Bethabara were begun that anyone became aware of the real significance of the tradition in which local potters were working. -- pg. 4.
Download or read book Serving Two Masters written by Elisabeth W. Sommer and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2000-02-17 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of the Brethren who later settled in Salem, North Carolina, experienced the stresses of cultural and generational conflict when its younger members came to think of themselves as Americans."
Download or read book Records of the Moravians Among the Cherokees written by C. Daniel Crews and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-eighteenth century, members of the Moravian Church, which had its origins in Central Europe, began conducting mission work among the Cherokee people. Their archives, now housed in North Carolina, include valuable records of their contact with the Cherokees. Drawing from these archives, these volumes offer a firsthand account of daily life among the Cherokees from initial contact between the Moravians and Cherokees in 1752 to the close of the nineteenth century.
Download or read book Serving Two Masters written by Elisabeth W. Sommer and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighteenth century was a time of significant change in the perception of marriage and family relations, the emphasis of reason over revelation, and the spread of political consciousness. The Unity of the Brethren, known in America as Moravians, experienced the resulting tensions firsthand as they organized their protective religious settlements in Germany. A group of the Brethren who later settled in Salem, North Carolina, experienced the stresses of cultural and generational conflict when its younger members came to think of themselves as Americans. The Moravians who first immigrated to America actively maintained their connections to those who remained in Europe and gave them the authority for deciding religious, social, and governmental issues. But, as the children born in Salem became acclimated to more freedoms, particularly in the wake of the American Revolution, a series of disputes intensified the problems of transatlantic governance. While the group's leadership usually associated Enlightenment principles with rebellion and religious skepticism, the younger Brethren were drawn to its message of individual autonomy and creative expression. Elisabeth Sommer traces the impact of this generational and cultural change among Moravians on both sides of the Atlantic and examines the resulting debate over the definition of freedom and faith.
Download or read book Records of the Moravians in North Carolina 1841 1851 written by Adelaide Lisetta Fries and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Records of the Moravians in North Carolina 1752 1771 v 2 1752 1775 v 3 1776 1779 v 4 1780 1783 v 5 1784 1792 v 6 1793 1808 v 7 1809 1822 v 8 1823 1837 v 9 1838 1847 v 10 1841 1851 v 11 1852 1879 written by Adelaide Lisetta Fries and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Moravians in North Carolina written by Levin Theodore Reichel and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
