Mar 8, 2010

Gnadenhutten massacre



(Wikipedia) The Gnadenhutten massacre, also known as the Moravian massacre, was the killing on March 8, 1782, of ninety-six Christian American Indians by American militia from Pennsylvania during the American Revolutionary War. The incident took place at the Moravian missionary village of Gnadenhütten, Ohio, located near what is now the town of Gnadenhutten, Ohio. Already in 1755, their previous village of Gnadenhütten, Pennsylvania had been subject to a massacre of converted Native Americans by other Native Americans. Continued


Image: "Zeisberger preaching to the Indians" (Library of Congress).

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