This article investigates the German Moravian slave mission in South Carolina (1738-1740), including its role in beginning evangelical Protestantism among Lowcountry slaves. It documents responses of planters, townspeople, and especially slaves and shows how the mission was connected to the transatlantic evangelical Protestant awakening. Following Wesley’s brief encounter in 1737 and preceding Whitefield’s visit in 1740 and the subsequent slave revival in Port Royal, the Moravians offered sustained contact with the new religious style. Several slaves responded enthusiastically, including a woman named Diana of Port Royal, who played a leadership role, while others defiantly rejected their message as the religion of barbaric masters. Disease, white resistance after the Stono Rebellion, internal problems, et al. forced the mission to close, but its brief history reveals the interests, struggles, hopes, and fears of slaves, planters, and missionaries in the mid-eighteenth century and how they were connected to other Atlantic and global missions.

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摩拉维亚使命和卡罗莱纳低地奴隶中福音派新教的起源

本文调查了德国摩拉维亚奴隶在南卡罗来纳州的使命（1738-1740 年），包括它在低地奴隶中开始福音派新教的作用。它记录了种植园主、市民，尤其是奴隶的反应，并展示了该使命与跨大西洋福音派新教觉醒的关系。继韦斯利在 1737 年的短暂遭遇和怀特菲尔德于 1740 年的访问以及随后在皇家港的奴隶复兴之前，摩拉维亚人提供了与新宗教风格的持续接触。几位奴隶热情地回应，其中包括一位名叫戴安娜的皇家港口的女性，她发挥了领导作用，而其他人则顽固地拒绝接受他们作为野蛮主人宗教的信息。疾病、斯托诺叛乱后的白人抵抗、内部问题等。迫使任务关闭，