| Description |
1 online resource : maps. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Cambridge studies on the American South
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Cambridge studies on the American South.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
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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. |
| Summary |
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 frontier of British America. Exploring their encounters with African and indigenous peoples with whom they had had no previous contact, this book examines their initial opposition to slavery and why they ultimately embraced it. Transatlantic in scope, this study will interest readers of European and American history alike. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Deportation -- Austria -- Salzburg -- History -- 18th century.
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Deportation. |
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Austria -- Salzburg. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
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Forced migration -- Austria -- Salzburg -- History -- 18th century.
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Forced migration. |
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Pietists -- Austria -- Salzburg -- History -- 18th century.
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Pietists. |
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Pietists -- Georgia -- History -- 18th century.
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Georgia. |
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Austria -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 18th century.
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Austria. |
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United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 18th century.
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Emigration and immigration. |
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Slavery -- Social aspects -- Georgia -- History -- 18th century.
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Slavery -- Social aspects. |
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Slavery. |
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Salzburg (Austria) -- History -- 18th century.
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United States. |
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) |
| Chronological Term |
1700-1799 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Melton, James Van Horn, 1952- Religion, community, and slavery on the colonial Southern Frontier 9781107063280 (DLC) 2014047371 (OCoLC)898113436 |
| ISBN |
9781316319390 (electronic book) |
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1316319393 (electronic book) |
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9781107477957 (electronic book) |
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1107477956 (electronic book) |
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9781107063280 |
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1107063280 |
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