Babel of the Atlantic /edited by Bethany Wiggin. 

 - University Park, Pennsylvania :  The Pennsylvania State University Press,  (c)2019. 
 - 1 online resource. 
 - The Max Kade Research Institute series: Germans beyond Europe .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : multilingual soundings in the colonial Mid-Atlantic : "differences of manners, languages and extraction, was now no more" /  "Wie ein Nimrod/like a nimrod" : Babel, confusion, and coercive bilingualism in the eighteenth-century Mid-Atlantic /  The Moravian threat to the Old World establishment /  Women, migration, and Moravian mission : negotiating Pennsylvania's colonial landscapes /  Benjamin Franklin, the Philadelphia Academy, Halle, and Göttingen /  German or English? : Halle's pastors in Pennsylvania and the search for the right language, 1742-1820 /  Writing against slavery : Germantown, Quakers, and the ethnic origins of early antislavery thought /  "Ein schrecklicher Zustand" : race, slavery, and gradual emancipation in Pennsylvania /  How the Quakers worked with Moravians, Germans, the French, the British, and enslaved and free Africans : all in the antislavery cause /  Communicating through wood and stone : building a new world identity in Pennsylvania /  Germans in colonial Philadelphia : ethnicity, hybridity, and the material world /  Bethany Wiggin --  Patrick M. Erben --  Craig Atwood --  Katherine Faull --  Jürgen Overhoff --  Wolfgang Flügel --  Katharine Gerbner --  Birte Pfleger --  Maurice Jackson --  Cynthia G. Falk --  Lisa Minardi. 
<br/><br/> "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. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780271083988 9780271084008 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Multilingualism--History--Pennsylvania--18th century.<br/>Multilingualism--History--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--18th century.<br/>Multilingualism--History--Middle Atlantic States--18th century.<br/>Antislavery movements--History--Pennsylvania--18th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>F152  / .B334 2019