Record #:

21163

Author(s):

Africa, Philip

Abstract:

Between the founding of Salem in 1771 as a Moravian community and the outbreak of Civil War, community attitudes went through a transition. The communal sense of 'gemeinschaft' slowly changed during the 19th century to a more business-like attitude of 'gesellschaft.' Secular pressures eroded opposition to slavery on religious and moral grounds, and by the 1850s Moravians came to regard slaves not as persons but as property.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 54 Issue 3, July 1977, p271-307, il, por, map

Subject(s):

Moravians--Slavery