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Serving Two Masters : Moravian Brethren in Germany and North Carolina, 1727-1801
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ISBN: 0813157234 9780813157238 1322598290 9781322598291 0813121396 9780813121390 Year: 2000 Publisher: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky,

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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 Am


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God's Fields : Landscape, Religion, and Race in Moravian Wachovia
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ISBN: 0813040590 9780813040592 9780813037486 Year: 2011 Publisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida,

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Leland Ferguson's work reconstructing this ""secret history"" through years of archaeological fieldwork was part of a historical preservation program that helped convince the Moravian Church in North America to formally apologize in 2006 for its participation in slavery and clear a way for racial reconciliation.

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