Speaker(s):
Aaron Fogleman
Location:
UW Memorial LIBRARY, room 126
Co-sponsor(s):
UW-Madison German Department, Center for German and European Studies, History Department, Religious Studies
Description:
In 1746, Maria Barbara Kroll (born a German Lutheran) and Jean François Reynier (a Huguenot from Switzerland) were married in a Moravian wedding ceremony near Frankfurt and immediately sent to Suriname as missionaries. Over the span of several decades, they crisscrossed the Atlantic World and lived in places as far-flung as England, St. Thomas, South Carolina, Georgia, and the Shenandoah Valley.
Based on letters and other contemporary sources, this presentation will look at social, political, and religious structures and conventions in the 18th century Atlantic world from the vantage point of one couple. It will address issues of conquest, migration, slavery, religion and spirituality, individualism, equality, gender and family roles, medicine, and others in the context of the couple’s contacts and interactions with people of different ethnicity, religion, and status in society.
[The topic of this presentation has been changed from a previous announcement.]
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