Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 (Esprios Classics)

Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 (Esprios Classics)

Author: Jasper Danckaerts

Publisher: Blurb

Published: 2021-08-03

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9781006662782

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Jasper Danckaerts (7 May 1639, Vlissingen - 1702/1704, Middelburg) was the founder of a colony of Labadists along the Bohemia River in what is now the US state of Maryland. He is known for his journal, kept while traveling through the territory which had previously been part of the New Netherland. Documenting his journey in 1679-1680, it offers a description of the landscape and the lifestyle of inhabitants of the region in the late 17th century. The diary journals the travels of Danckaerts and Peter Sluyter (1645, Wesel-1722), two emissaries of Friesland pietists known as Labadists, journeying to North America to find a location for the establishment of a community.


Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680

Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680

Author: Jasper Danckaerts

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2015-03-10

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9781507677612

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"[...]a spirit of evangelical earnestness into the Reformed Church of the Netherlands, which, at the rise of Labadism, was formal and pedantic in its modes of worship and given to theological disputation. Labadie has importance in the history of that church, and is accorded honor in its records. The futility of the sect in the New World was due not wholly to its communal form of organization, but is to be attributed as well to the fact that the Labadists migrated in obedience to no high and lofty impulse, but because in their nomadic passage from place to place, under the pressure of religious and civil proscription, due in most cases to acts of insubordination, there seemed no place remaining for them except the shores of the New World. No history of communism can be complete that does not include the experiment entered upon by Jean de Labadie and his followers in the Old World, and by the[...]".