Moravians

Examples of Moravians in the following topics:

• Evolution of Protestantism

  • The Moravians, like John and Charles Wesley, arrived in America in 1735.
  • The Moravians wished to serve as Christian missionaries for the different ethnic groups in America.
  • The Moravians were deeply involved with the religious use of music.

• Religion in Early New England

  • The Moravians arrived with John and Charles Wesley in America in 1735.
  • The Moravians wished to serve as Christian missionaries for the different ethnic groups in America.
  • The Moravians were deeply involved with music; they practiced hymn singing daily, and some even wrote instrumental music.

• Free Blacks in the South

  • Quakers and Moravians in Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware were also influential in persuading slaveholders to free their slaves.

• Settling the Middle Colonies

  • The Penn family was Quaker, and the Pennsylvania colony became a favorite destination for that group as well as German Lutherans, German Reformed, and numerous small sects such as Mennonites, Amish, and Moravians, as well as Scotch Irish Presbyterians.

• Unitarianism and Universalism

  • The Universalist Church of America, which held that all human beings may be saved through Jesus Christ and would come to harmony in God's kingdom, emerged in the late eighteenth century from a mixture of Anabaptists, Moravians, liberal Quakers, and people influenced by Pietist movements such as Methodism.

• The Old South

  • After 1776, Quaker and Moravian advocates helped persuade numerous slaveholders in the Upper South to free their slaves.