Hope's Promise : Religion and Acculturation in the Southern Backcountry /

Show other versions (2)

This eloquent study describes the complex process of assimilation that occurred among multi-ethnic groups in Wachovia, the evangelical community that settled a 100,000-acre tract in Piedmont North Carolina from 1750 to 1860. It counters commonplace notions that evangelicalism was a divisive force in...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rohrer, S. Scott, 1957-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2005]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Brüdergemeine.
Acculturatie.
Herrnhutters.
Brüdergemeine
Moravians.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Evangelicalism > Social aspects.
Ethnicity.
Ethnic relations.
Christian communities.
British Americans.
Acculturation.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Frontier and pioneer life > North Carolina > Forsyth County.
Christian communities > North Carolina > Forsyth County > History.
Evangelicalism > Social aspects > North Carolina > Forsyth County > History.
Ethnicity > North Carolina > Forsyth County > History.
Acculturation > North Carolina > Forsyth County > History.
British Americans > North Carolina > Forsyth County > History.
Moravians > North Carolina > Forsyth County > History.
North Carolina.
North Carolina
North Carolina > Forsyth County.
Forsyth County (N.C.) > Religious life and customs.
Forsyth County (N.C.) > Ethnic relations.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prelude : the Northern years
  • A community of believers
  • An Anglo-German world
  • Becoming "American" : the Revolutionary years
  • Becoming "Southern" : the slaveholding years
  • The new world of the 1830s and beyond.

Similar Items