Records of the Moravians in North Carolina: 1776-1779
Author: Adelaide Lisetta Fries
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 558
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 558
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Levin Theodore Reichel
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Published: 1857
Total Pages: 212
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jon F. Sensbach
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2012-12-01
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0807838543
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Adelaide Lisetta Fries
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 506
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: C. Daniel Crews
Publisher: North Carolina Division of Archives & History
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 584
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The North Carolina Historical Commission changed its name in the 1950s to the North Carolina Department of Archives and History.
Author: Jennifer Bean Bower
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9780738543291
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: C. Daniel Crews
Publisher: North Carolina Division of Archives & History
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 590
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Adelaide Lisetta Fries
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 556
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John Bivins (Jr.)
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 330
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Adelaide Lisetta Fries
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 508
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