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When Moravian painter Valentine Haidt painted his ... Not all Moravians however shared these views of Black people. Some owned slaves and some sources suggest that Black slaves were used ...
Moravian came back from a single run deficit in Game 1 of their Landmark Tournament Saturday. They beat Wilkes 5-4 in extra innings. Jess Forder had the game winning walk-off hit. In Game 2 ...
The graves, found in Section 2 of the St. Philips Moravian Graveyard, are thought to belong to slaves buried after 1859. The graves were pinpointed Tuesday through the use of ground-penetrating ...
William Brangham: The U.S. saw its 26th UNESCO World Heritage Site declared this past summer. It was in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where a historic settlement of the Moravian Church, along with ...
The connection between Salem, North Carolina, and Liberia began in 1836 when Moravian physician Dr. Frederick Henry Schumann facilitated the return of his 17 freed slaves plus six others back to ...
Moravian church settlements in Germany, Northern Ireland and Denmark are also included in the World Heritage listing, which is the first transnational listing put forth by the U.S.
From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! The Historic Moravian Bethlehem District in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, has been added ...
Lititz Moravian Church celebrates its 275th anniversary this year. The church, centered downtown in what was once named “The Coolest Small Town in America,” is a stone’s throw from busy shop ...
Rebecca Protten would eventually be freed and came to Christianity through the work of Moravian missionaries. Dubbed “the Mother of Modern Missions” by some, Protten engaged in mission work on behalf ...
What's False Unlike institutionalized chattel slavery, indentured servitude was neither hereditary nor lifelong; unlike Black slaves, white indentured servants had legal rights; unlike Black ...
during which debts were forgiven and slaves were freed in order to show the mercy of God. “Medical debt is a modern form of slavery,” Rev. John Jackman, pastor of Trinity Moravian Church ...
Lititz Moravian Congregation officials say they need more time to review what happened at Tuesday’s Lititz Springs Park board meeting before weighing in on the board’s decision to host a June ...