Religion, Community, and Slavery on the Colonial Southern Frontier

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Religion, Community, and Slavery on the Colonial Southern Frontier is written by James Van Horn Melton and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1316299295 (ISBN 10) and 9781316299296 (ISBN 13).

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.