| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.3

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Book Review

A Separate Canaan: The Making of an Afro-Moravian World in North Carolina, 1763–1840. By Jon F. Sensbach. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xxvi, 342 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2394-5. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8078-4698-8.)

Jon F. Sensbach has exploited the voluminous collections of the Moravian Archives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to study religion and race relations between this German-speaking group and Africans–African Americans during the era of Christianization and transformation to plantation agriculture in the North Carolina backcountry. He provides new insight by adding the perspectives of a non-English European ethnic group, and he uses diaries, protocols, individual biographies of slaves, and other documents to get very close to what the perspectives of the slaves might have been. Sensbach is able to analyze acculturation and assimilation, as the German Moravians struggled to build and maintain an ideal religious community, as African Americans struggled to improve their lives by becoming a part of that community, and as both dealt with the forces of change occurring around them. . . .

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