Jon F Sensbach: 1 book
A Separate Canaan
The Making of an Afro-Moravian World in North Carolina, 1763-1840
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
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...
