In 1735 a band of Moravian Brethren sailed for Oglethorpe’s new colony of Georgia, hoping to settle, farm and preach to the Creek and Yamacraw peoples. Working from the church’s own archives, Fries follows Spangenberg, Nitschmann and their followers through negotiations with the Trustees, the first hard years at Savannah, the arrival of reinforcements, and the pressures of militia service that broke the settlement apart.
A careful archival history of an early American failure that shaped the later Moravian success in Pennsylvania and North Carolina. Download the free EPUB.