Using original diaries, minutes, reports, and correspondence in the Moravian Archives in North Carolina, the "Records of the Moravians among the Cherokees "series provides a rare account of daily life among the Cherokees throughout the nineteenth century. Although written by missionaries, the records provide keen insight into Cherokee culture, society, and customs.

Volume 4 continues the story through 1816, when earthquakes ushered in a period of upheaval--from the Cherokees' involvement in the Creek War, to MEtis battles in Canada, to Napoleon's conquests in Europe. Meanwhile, the little...

The ominous subtitle, "March to Removal, "opens a new series of "Records of the Moravians Among the Cherokees" that will take us up to 1838 and the tragic Trail of Tears. Volume 6 covers the years 1821 1824.
Despite the loss of teacher Anna Rosina Gambold, the Moravians open a second mission station near Oochgeelogy Creek, thirty miles south of Springplace, their first station. Meanwhile, confident of its future, the Cherokee Nation sets about building a civilization of its own with a national capital, legislature, code of laws, and diplomatic negotiations with Washington. Now, all the...

This volume of edited church diaries and minute books kept by Moravian ministers covers a momentous period in North Carolina's history--the aftermath and recovery from the Civil War and Reconstruction.