Title Babel of the Atlantic / edited by Bethany Wiggin

Published University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2019] ©2019

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Description 1 online resource Series The Max Kade Research Institute series: Germans beyond Europe Max Kade Research Institute series: Germans beyond Europe Contents Introduction : multilingual soundings in the colonial Mid-Atlantic : "differences of manners, languages and extraction, was now no more" / Bethany Wiggin -- "Wie ein Nimrod/like a nimrod" : Babel, confusion, and coercive bilingualism in the eighteenth-century Mid-Atlantic / Patrick M. Erben -- The Moravian threat to the Old World establishment / Craig Atwood -- Women, migration, and Moravian mission : negotiating Pennsylvania's colonial landscapes / Katherine Faull -- Benjamin Franklin, the Philadelphia Academy, Halle, and Göttingen / Jürgen Overhoff -- German or English? : Halle's pastors in Pennsylvania and the search for the right language, 1742-1820 / Wolfgang Flügel -- Writing against slavery : Germantown, Quakers, and the ethnic origins of early antislavery thought / Katharine Gerbner -- "Ein schrecklicher Zustand" : race, slavery, and gradual emancipation in Pennsylvania / Birte Pfleger -- How the Quakers worked with Moravians, Germans, the French, the British, and enslaved and free Africans : all in the antislavery cause / Maurice Jackson -- Communicating through wood and stone : building a new world identity in Pennsylvania / Cynthia G. Falk -- Germans in colonial Philadelphia : ethnicity, hybridity, and the material world / Lisa Minardi Summary "A collection of essays examining colonial Philadelphia and its surroundings as a zone of cultural and linguistic interchange. Documents everyday multilingualism and intercultural negotiations with special attention to themes of religion, education, race and the abolitionist movement, and material culture and architecture"--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 3, 2019) Subject Multilingualism -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 18th century Multilingualism -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 18th century Multilingualism -- Middle Atlantic States -- History -- 18th century Antislavery movements -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 18th century POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. HISTORY -- United States -- Colonial Period (1600-1775) Antislavery movements Multilingualism Religion SUBJECT Pennsylvania -- Religion -- History -- 18th century Pennsylvania -- Religion -- 18th century Subject Middle Atlantic States Pennsylvania Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Wiggin, Bethany, 1972- editor. ISBN 9780271083988 0271083980 9780271084008 0271084006

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