"European Christian immigrants such as the Moravians perceived America as a new Israel, a refuge from the spiritual and physical "wilderness" of Europe, and a biblical model for the moral regeneration of the world.
For Afro-Christians, on the other hand, America, the land of captivity, represented the opposite image - Egypt, a wilderness of exile and bondage like that of the Israelites with whom they identified." - A Separate Canaan, Jon F. Sensbach, xxi
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