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A separate Canaan

the making of an Afro-Moravian world in North Carolina, 1763-1840

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An edition of A separate Canaan (1998)

A separate Canaan

the making of an Afro-Moravian world in North Carolina, 1763-1840

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In eighteenth-century 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 grew, so did its demand for labor, and Moravians began buying slaves to help build and operate their farms, ships, and industries.

The Moravian Brethren 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, far removed from the sprawling plantations to the east. Black Moravians spoke, read, and sang in German, played Moravian music on classical instruments, and shared communal dormitories with white Moravians.

According to Jon Sensbach, the Moravian social experiment demonstrated the fluidity of race in an age when Revolutionary rhetoric championed the rights of man - even though white Brethren never abandoned their belief that black slavery was ordained by God.

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Separate Canaan: The Making of an Afro-Moravian World in North Carolina, 1763-1840
2012, University of North Carolina Press
in English
Cover of: Separate Canaan
Separate Canaan: The Making of an Afro-Moravian World in North Carolina, 1763-1840
2012, Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
in English
Cover of: Separate Canaan
Separate Canaan: The Making of an Afro-Moravian World in North Carolina, 1763-1840
2012, Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
in English
Cover of: A separate Canaan
A separate Canaan: the making of an Afro-Moravian world in North Carolina, 1763-1840
1998, Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, The University of North Carolina Press
in English

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-239) and index.

Published in
Chapel Hill

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
975.6/00496073
Library of Congress
E185.93.N6 S46 1998, 97-17726 [E], E185.93.N6S46 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxiii, 342 p. :
Number of pages
342

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Open Library
OL671725M
Internet Archive
separatecanaanma0000sens
ISBN 10
0807823945, 0807846988
LCCN
97017726
OCLC/WorldCat
37106982
Library Thing
607709
Goodreads
563581
6439918

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