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Two troubled souls : an eighteenth-century couple's spiritual journey in the Atlantic world /
"Jean-Francois Reynier, a French Swiss Huguenot, and his wife, Maria Barbara Knoll, a Lutheran from the German territories, crossed the Atlantic several times and lived among Protestants, Jews, African slaves, and Native Americans from Suriname to New York and many places in between. While they...
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Chapel Hill, NC :
The University of North Carolina Press,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Marriage, mission, and migrants in the Atlantic world
- Part I.A young man's path into the Atlantic world. Alpine origins ; Pennsylvania: a troubled pietist in an individualist paradise ; Georgia: joining a colony of rebels ; Giving Europe another chance
- Part II. Union in Europe. A woman's path into the Atlantic world ; The wedding
- Part III. To the Caribbean they went. A long journey together ; Trouble in Suriname ; Salvation and success on St. Thomas
- Part IV. Life in North America. Crisis and controversy in Pennsylvania ; Onto the transatlantic stage ; Separation, empowerment, and flight from Pennsylvania ; A separate peace in Georgia
- Conclusion: Seekers at rest in a world they could not change.