Religion, community, and slavery on the colonial Southern Frontier /

This book tells the story of Ebenezer, a frontier community in colonial Georgia founded by a mountain community fleeing religious persecution in its native Salzburg. This study traces the lives of the settlers from the alpine world they left behind to their struggle for survival on the southern fron...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Melton, James Van Horn, 1952- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Colección:Cambridge studies on the American South.
Temas:
1700-1799
Deportation > Austria > Salzburg > History > 18th century.
Forced migration > Austria > Salzburg > History > 18th century.
Pietists > Austria > Salzburg > History > 18th century.
Pietists > Georgia > History > 18th century.
Slavery > Social aspects > Georgia > History > 18th century.
Piétistes > Autriche > Salzbourg > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Piétistes > Géorgie (État) > Histoire > 18e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Deportation.
Emigration and immigration.
Forced migration.
Pietists.
Slavery > Social aspects.
Salzburger Exulanten
Sklaverei
Austria > Emigration and immigration > History > 18th century.
United States > Emigration and immigration > History > 18th century.
Salzburg (Austria) > History > 18th century.
Austria.
Austria > Salzburg.
Georgia.
United States.
Ebenezer, Ga.
History.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part. I From Europe to America
  • The alpine world of Thomas Geschwandel
  • Miners and protestantism in the Gastein valley
  • Clandestine print culture
  • The sendbrief of Joseph Schaitberger
  • 2. Expulsion
  • The arrival of the Jesuits
  • Sounds of music in Alpine Salzburg: Corpus Christi in Hofgastein, 1730
  • Escalating protest
  • Signifying confessional identity
  • The expulsion of Thomas and Margaretha Geschwandel
  • 3. From Salzburg to Savannah
  • Into exile
  • The origins of Georgia
  • Migrant motives
  • Between Augsburg and the Atlantic
  • The voyage of the Purrysburg
  • pt. II Ebenezer
  • 4. The making of a Pietist utopia
  • First encounters
  • The seasoning
  • New Ebenezer
  • The trials of Thomas Geschwandel
  • 5. Governing Ebenezer: the early years
  • Discipline, disease, and conversion
  • Outsiders and insiders
  • Preserving confessional cohesion
  • Disaffection
  • 6. Ebenezer and the struggle over slavery
  • Malcontents.
  • Ebenezer and the opposition to slavery
  • Between London and Ebenezer: proslavery agitation and the Ortmann affair
  • 7. After slavery
  • New arrivals
  • Boltzius, slaveholding, and the Ebenezer community
  • Reconversion: Boltzius's final years
  • Thomas Geschwandel's last decade
  • Ebenezer Is no more: epilogue.

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