Wandering Souls

Protestant Migrations in America, 1630-1865

• Author(s): S. Scott Rohrer,
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
• Pages: 312
• ISBN_10: 080783372X
  ISBN_13: 9780807833728
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Emigration & Immigration , History / United States / General , Religion / Christianity / History , Religion / History ,

Description:... Popular literature and frontier studies stress that Americans moved west to farm or to seek a new beginning. Scott Rohrer argues that Protestant migrants in early America relocated in search of salvation, Christian community, reform, or all three.