Description
Volume 11 Part 1 of Records of the Moravians Among the Cherokees, 1838-1842, introduces a new subtitle series, New Homeland. This volume follows the Moravian missionaries “From the United States to the Indian Territory” to renew their mission to the Cherokees, and then the Cherokee Nation rises up from the depths of the Trail of Tears with a new constitution in its new land. It begins with the Mission Travel Diary of the three Moravian missionaries who left the Cherokee Nation East in Septemer of 1838 for the new homeof the Cherokees in the West. They traveled the same route that most Cherokees would follow who left later that year, and their diary gives many details of this route.
