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- catalog abstract ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10697956.
- catalog coverage "North Carolina Race relations.".
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-239) and index.".
- catalog extent "xxiii, 342 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Separate Canaan.".
- catalog identifier "0807823945 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0807846988 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Separate Canaan.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press,".
- catalog relation "Separate Canaan.".
- catalog spatial "North Carolina Race relations.".
- catalog spatial "North Carolina".
- catalog subject "975.6/00496073 21".
- catalog subject "African Americans North Carolina History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "African Americans North Carolina History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "E185.93.N6 S46 1998".
- catalog subject "Moravians North Carolina History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Moravians North Carolina History 19th century.".
- catalog title "A separate Canaan : the making of an Afro-Moravian world in North Carolina, 1763-1840 / Jon F. Sensbach.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".