What is it about?
One of the earliest Protestant slave missions in colonial British North America was that of the German Moravians in South Carolina, 1738-1740. This article assesses the response of enslaved Africans and African Americans to that mission.
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Why is it important?
Recorded responses of enslaved Africans and African Americans in the Atlantic World, especially the Carolina Lowcountry, are rare during this early period of Protestant mission activity. This work helps us assess those responses for and against at a time when very few enslaved people were interested in the Protestant message in the Americas. It also assesses those responses by gender.
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This article provides examples of enslaved women and men in colonial South Carolina explicitly rejecting Christian missionaries, as well as those who accepted them. It addresses who accepted them and who did not and why, paying attention the different responses of men and women.
Distinguished Research Professor Aaron Spencer Fogleman
Northern Illinois University
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This page is a summary of: A Moravian Mission and the Origins of Evangelical Protestantism among Slaves in the Carolina Lowcountry, Journal of Early Modern History, March 2017, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/15700658-12342529.
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