| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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Book Review

Hope's Promise: Religion and Acculturation in the Southern Backcountry. By S. Scott Rohrer. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005. xxxvi, 266 pp. $42.50, ISBN 0-8173-1435-0.)

S. Scott Rohrer's well-researched book joins several recent studies devoted to the Moravians and the communities they transplanted from Germany to North America in the eighteenth century. Rohrer's theme is the progressive acculturation and assimilation of the Moravians from 1753, when they settled the tract of land they called die Wachau, or Wachovia, on the North Carolina frontier, until the Civil War. Rohrer shows that the eighteenth-century settlers, despite the German roots of Wachovia, had already absorbed substantial numbers of English speakers into their communities in the northern colonies. These mixed groups, he argues, formed the basis of an Anglo-German ethnicity that grew in importance. The world of mid-nineteenth-century Moravians would become recognizably evangelical, American, and southern.

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