Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Leonard von Morzé
• Leslie Elizabeth Eckel
• Clare Frances Elliott

Titel

The Silkworm and the Bee: Georgia, Cognitive Mapping, and the Atlantic Labour System in Boltzius and Thomson

Ist Teil von

• The Edinburgh Companion to Atlantic Literary Studies, 2016, p.17

Ort / Verlag

Edinburgh University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• On or about 23 June 1740, somewhere near Abercorn Creek in New Ebenezer, Georgia, a pastor addressed a group of recalcitrant labourers from Salzburg whom he had asked to build a gristmill. Perhaps because war with Spain had taken ten of their number away to Florida, the labourers were feeling their power, and the carpenter in charge of the project, one Georg Kogler, had been telling the pastor that his fellow workers would not begin construction ‘unless a specific wage was agreed upon and promised’. Johann Martin Boltzius, the leader of the German-speaking community of 250, knew Kogler’s history of