Blackcoats Among the Delaware: David Zeisberger on the Ohio Frontier

About this title:

"Thousands of pages of diaries and hundreds of letters serve as David Zeisberger's testament to sixty-three years as a Moravian missionary among North American Indians. This unrivaled record of Indian culture and colonial life provides firsthand evidence of the eighteenth-century struggle between the American Indians and their British and American adversaries.

Zeisberger founded Schoenbrunn, the first organized settlement in the Ohio Country, in 1772. The Delaware Indian Christian converts lived here for nine years in relative peace. Then, caught between the opposing forces of the American Revolution, Zeisberger and his Indian congregation were forced to wander in the wilderness of Ohio and Canada for seventeen years before returning to his cherished Tuscarawas River valley. There, at Goshen he also established his last mission.

Readers of Blackcoats among the Delaware will find new and interesting historical data taken from recently discovered correspondence and previously untranslated diaries, as well as a fascinating analysis of Zeisberger's unique approach to Christian philosophy vis-a-vis native Indian religion and culture. The final section of the book is devoted to discussing the often tragic lives of the forty Indians buried with Zeisberger in the Goshen cemetery."

ISBN-13: 9780873384346
ISBN-10: 0873384342
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Publish Date: July 1991
Page Count: 296
Dimensions: 8.94 x 5.98 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 0.92 pounds