The Winston-Salem Journal has a fascinating account today of the early Moravian settlers of Winston-Salem and their relationships with the Cherokees.
Here?s interesting part of the history I didn?t know:
The Cherokee exodus from the Southeast to Oklahoma began in 1838. According to some estimates, more than 4,000 people died along the way, about a fifth of the Cherokee people.
Historians have written that the Trail of Tears was a source of moral crisis in the Moravian church. Some wanted to accompany the Cherokee along the route but were afraid that doing so would imply an agreement with the resettlement policy.
