Two Troubled Souls: An Eighteenth-Century Couple’s Spiritual Journey in the Atlantic World by Aaron Spencer Fogleman

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Emily Mieras

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With Two Troubled Souls, Aaron Spencer Fogleman gives us a deeply engaging account of the lives of an eighteenth-century Moravian missionary couple, both telling the story of their marriage and illuminating the multifaceted and multicultural experiences of the Atlantic World they inhabited. The lives of Jean-Francois reynier and Maria Barbara Knoll spanned continents and decades, intersecting with two Atlantic World empires (Dutch, English) and bearing witness to four colonial wars. Fogleman effectively explores both their relationship and the cultural, imperial, and religious contexts they encountered as they traveled their new world searching for their own place and purpose and trying to serve their God.

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