Religion, Community, and Slavery on the Colonial Southern Frontier

by James Van Horn Melton

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107063280
• ISBN13: 9781107063280
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"