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The Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees
Rowena McClinton
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Description for The Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees
Paperback. Abridged edition of a diary written by Anna Rosina Gambold, a Moravian missionary to the Cherokee Editor(s): McClinton, Rowena. Series: Indians of the Southeast. Num Pages: 184 pages, 1 illustration, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBFG; 3JH; BJ; HBTB; HRCX7; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 10. Weight in Grams: 241.
In 1801 the Moravians, a Pietist German-speaking group from Central Europe, founded the Springplace Mission at a site in present-day northwestern Georgia. The Moravians remained among the Cherokees for more than thirty years, longer than any other Christian group. John and Anna Rosina Gambold served at the mission from 1805 until Anna’s death in 1821. Anna, the principal author of the diaries, chronicles the intimate details of Cherokee daily life for seventeen years. Anna describes mission life and what she heard and saw at Springplace: food preparation and consumption, transactions pertaining to land, Cherokee body ornaments, conjuring, Cherokee law and punishment, Green ... Read more
In 1801 the Moravians, a Pietist German-speaking group from Central Europe, founded the Springplace Mission at a site in present-day northwestern Georgia. The Moravians remained among the Cherokees for more than thirty years, longer than any other Christian group. John and Anna Rosina Gambold served at the mission from 1805 until Anna’s death in 1821. Anna, the principal author of the diaries, chronicles the intimate details of Cherokee daily life for seventeen years. Anna describes mission life and what she heard and saw at Springplace: food preparation and consumption, transactions pertaining to land, Cherokee body ornaments, conjuring, Cherokee law and punishment, Green ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Series
Indians of the Southeast
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803220959
SKU
V9780803220959
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About Rowena McClinton
Rowena McClinton is an associate professor of history at Southern Illinois University–Edwardsville. She is the editor of the two-volume set The Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees (Nebraska 2007).
Reviews for The Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees
"McClinton's excellent volume can be used in classrooms to highlight the effects of cultural change in an Indian community."—Adam Pratt, North Carolina Historical Review