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.
#1318283 in Books Clampitt Bradley R 2016-10-19 2016-10-19Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.25 x 1.00 x 6.50l; .0 #File Name: 0807163384304 pagesOccupied Vicksburg
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Vicksburb After the SiegeBy A. A. NofiA summary of the review on StrategyPage.Com'Prof. Clampitt (East Central University); the author of The Confederate Heartland; examines events in wartime Vicksburg after its surrender on July 4; 1863; a hitherto untold story. After a short introduction to get the reader to that July 4th; Clampitt devotes a chapter to the events of that day; from both sides of the war; and from both white and black perspectives. He follows up with chapters on the curious weeks during which victors in Blue and prisoners-of-war in Gray were in close proximity until the latter were paroled. There follow chapters on the occupiers and the local citizens; both Confederate and Unionist; on the occupation and African-Americans; slave and free; many of whom soon turned up in Union Blue; and on Confederate resistance. Clampitt throws light on a number of complex issues not closely examined before; such as why black body servants often wished to remain with their Confederate officer masters; rather than accept freedom; the management of the local economy; and so on. A ground-breaking work; this is an important read for the serious student of the Civil War; the evolution of U.S. occupation polices; and even the nuances of race and slavery in nineteenth century America.'For the full review see StrategyPage.Com
