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"Barbara Wright vividly tells the story of two young women who were plucked up from an ordinary life in Europe to share in the adventures of the Moravians as they carved settlements from the wilderness of colonial America."--Richard Starbuck, Archivist, Southern Province Moravian Archives

"An Awakening Heart" is the true story of Christina Krause, ancestor of the author who must confront the fundamental conflict between her faith, and the religious practice that requires her to relinquish her children. Set against the backdrop of early America, this readable, informative book gives insight into a little known immigrant experience."--Sid Moody, retired Associated Press National Feature Writer

"Barbara Wright has joined the arts of archival scholarship and literary imagination to reconstruct the lives of two devout Moravian women who, like others of their co-religionists, migrated from their native Germany to the inhospitable physical and spiritual terrain of 18th century America. Each in her own fashion, confronted the tension between doctrinal pieties and their translation into daily experience and the vagaries of biography. Wright's absorbing tale of their responses is not only a 'good read' but speaks across the centuries to all those of any faith--sacred or secular--whose deepest moral convictions are tested by facts on the ground."  --Marvin Bressler, Roger Williams Straus Professor of Sociology and the Social Sciences, Emeritus, Princeton University

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