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A Separate Canaan: The Making of an Afro-Moravian World in North Carolina, 1763-1840 (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History … and the University of North Carolina Press)

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In colonial North Carolina, German-speaking settlers from the Moravian Church founded a spiritual refuge–a great society, they hoped, whose blueprint for day by day life was once the Bible and whose Chief Elder was once Christ himself. As the community’s demand for labor grew, the Moravian Brethren bought slaves to lend a hand operate their farms, shops, and industries. Moravians believed Within 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 once ordained by God.
According to 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 The us. Exploring the fluidity of race in Revolutionary era The us, it highlights the struggle of African Americans to protected their fragile place in a culture unwilling to give them full human rights. Within the early nineteenth century, white Moravians forsook their spiritual inclusiveness, installing blacks in a separate church. Just as white Americans all through the new republic rejected African American equality, the Moravian story illustrates the power of slavery and race to overwhelm other ideals.

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