Project MUSE®: Journal of Moravian History - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Journal of Moravian History.daily12026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 12 (2012) - vol.23 (2023)Latest Articles: Journal of Moravian HistoryTWOProject MUSE®Journal of Moravian History2161-63101933-6632Latest articles in Journal of Moravian History. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Slavery in Bethlehem: Difference and Indifference in Northampton County's Moravian Settlements
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/911056
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An enslaved woman, Hanna (1720 or 1723–1815), arrived in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1745. Isaac Ysselstein had purchased Hanna in Esopus, New York, and brought her to Pennsylvania in the 1730s. Working on the Ysselstein farm on the Lehigh River's south side, Hanna met and, in 1740, married a man whom an enslaver had named Boston (1715–1781) and the couple had two children. When Rachel Ysselstein, widowed since 1742, moved across the river to Bethlehem, she brought Hanna and Hanna's surviving son, Bastian (1743–1753), with her. A third child, Christian, was born and buried in Bethlehem in 1747; Bastian, sent to the Moravian boarding school at Frederickstown, was baptized "Daniel." The following year Ysselstein
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/558/image/coversmallSlavery in Bethlehem: Difference and Indifference in Northampton County's Moravian Settlements2023-11-03text/htmlen-USSlavery in Bethlehem: Difference and Indifference in Northampton County's Moravian Settlements2023-11-032023TWOProject MUSE®2139662026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002023-11-03Peter Boehler's Universalist Letter
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/911057
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The theological fault lines among eighteenth-century proponents of religious awakening are well-known. Strict Calvinists held to an exclusionary system of salvation based on divine fiat and eternal damnation while others fostered more inclusive systems that extended the circle of salvation based on a universal application of Jesus's atonement and decided salvation was determined more by human agency. Even among those who believed in universal redemption, however, universal salvation—that eventually all human beings would enjoy a restored relationship with God in heaven—remained outside the boundaries of evangelical orthodoxy. But there have always been Christians who have held to universal salvation, and in the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/558/image/coversmallPeter Boehler's Universalist Letter2023-11-03text/htmlen-USPeter Boehler's Universalist Letter2023-11-032023TWOProject MUSE®680092026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002023-11-03Spangenberg's 1760 Letter about Slaveholding in St. Thomas and Bethlehem
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/911058
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A short letter by August Gottlieb Spangenberg to the missionaries in St. Thomas, written in 1760, is preserved at the Moravian Archives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Buried in the vast correspondence to and from the West Indies, this letter is easy to overlook. But its three pages offer fascinating insights into the Moravian debate on slavery and on the church's practice of employing enslaved persons, as well as into Spangenberg's own perspective on these matters. The letter is a valuable source given the renewed interest in the history of Moravian involvement with Atlantic slavery. By discussing, transcribing, and translating this letter, we hope to make this source available to a wide circle of scholars and others
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/558/image/coversmallSpangenberg's 1760 Letter about Slaveholding in St. Thomas and Bethlehem2023-11-03text/htmlen-USSpangenberg's 1760 Letter about Slaveholding in St. Thomas and Bethlehem2023-11-032023TWOProject MUSE®617392026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002023-11-03Missionaries and Modernity: Education in the British Empire, 1830–1910 by Felicity Jensz (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/911059
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Felicity Jensz's deeply researched, well-written monograph, Missionaries and Modernity: Education in the British Empire, 1830–1910, is an ambitious, transnational analysis of the "civilizing" imperative of empire, education, and missionizing in both colonies and metropole. Jensz focuses throughout on the confluences yet conflicts between governmental and mission education agendas in diverse geopolitical and chronological colonial contexts. Throughout, she argues for the tension between, on the one hand, "colonial modernity" (a term coined by David Scott to broadly describe colonial governments' attempts to "modernize" colonial subjects through, for example, voting, political participation and secular education)
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/558/image/coversmallMissionaries and Modernity: Education in the British Empire, 1830–1910 by Felicity Jensz (review)2023-11-03text/htmlen-USMissionaries and Modernity: Education in the British Empire, 1830–1910 by Felicity Jensz (review)2023-11-032023TWOProject MUSE®102922026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002023-11-03Babel of the Atlantic ed. by Bethany Wiggin (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/911060
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Babel of the Atlantic explores the multilingualism of life in the colonial mid-Atlantic, which many colonists and visitors critically compared to the polyglot, biblical city of Babel. Wiggin and the volume's contributors reconsider the negative associations of polyglot Pennsylvania, revealing instead the richness of a multicultural, multiethnic place. Beyond demonstrating the pervasiveness of various languages in colonial Pennsylvania and its surroundings, including Delaware, Dutch, English, French, German, and Mohican, the book's authors highlight the ways translation and language were used to enforce power relations, define communities, and reflect interrelations among the diverse body of speakers in and around
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/558/image/coversmallBabel of the Atlantic ed. by Bethany Wiggin (review)2023-11-03text/htmlen-USBabel of the Atlantic ed. by Bethany Wiggin (review)2023-11-032023TWOProject MUSE®109272026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002023-11-03