1. The Moravian Missionary Experience: 1732-1800
... light on a problem that fell well within his realm as spiritual leader of the Moravian Brethren. A slave named Anthony, the body servant of an acquaintance of Zinzendorf's, told the Count of "the dark moral and intellectual and religious condition of the slaves in the Danish West Indies" (Hamilton 50). His plans for recognition within the court of the new king quashed, the Count immediately began to plan missions to the Danish holding in the ... by those in charge of the estates. In 1738 two of these men, John Guttner and Christian Dahne founded Pilgerhut on a tributary of the Berbice, ...
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