Blackcoats among the Delaware
Subtitle: David Zeisberger on the Ohio frontier
By: Earl P. Olmstead.
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Kent, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: Zeisberger, David, 1721-1808.; Moravian Church -- Missions -- Ohio -- Tuscarawas River Valley.; Delaware Indians -- Missions.; Delaware Indians -- History -- Sources.; Missionaries -- Ohio -- Tuscarawas River Valley -- Biography.; Tuscarawas River Valley (Ohio) -- History -- Sources.
Description: Thousands of pages of diaries and hundreds of letters serve as David Zeisberger's testament to sixty-three years as a Moravian missionary among North American Indians. This unrivaled record of Indian culture and colonial life provides firsthand evidence of the eighteenth-century struggle between the American Indians and their British and American adversaries. Readers of Blackcoats among the Delaware will find new and interesting historical data taken from recently discovered correspondence and previously untranslated diaries, as well as a fascinating analysis of Zeisberger's unique approach to Christian philosophy vis-a-vis native Indian religion and culture. The final section of the book is devoted to discussing the often tragic lives of the forty Indians buried with Zeisberger in the Goshen cemetery. - Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-272) and index.