In the course of a few weeks the negro, Anthony, himself arrived at Hermhut, and confirmed, at a public meeting there, all that he had stated at Copenhagen, respecting the wants and the willingness of his ignorant and oppressed countrymen in St. However, there is a story preserved by Bonnie Bartonin her book The Bow in the Cloud: or, The Negro's Memorial (1834) about Leonard Dober where she says,Ībout this time, meeting with some pious companions of Count Zinzendorff, who had arrived at the court of Denmark to attend the coronation of Christian VI., Anthony broke his mind to them, saying, " Oh:! that some one would go and preach the gospel to my sister in St. In fact, although they expressed willingness to do this, white slavery was not allowed in any of the West Indian islands, so they plied their individual trades to support themselves. The Story of the Moravian SlavesMain article: Moravian slaves (story)Ī popular misconception is that Dober and Nitschmann sold themselves into slavery in order to gain access to the African slaves of St. He died on Apand was buried in God's Acre, the community's graveyard on the Hutberg Hill in Herrnhut, Saxony, Germany. After Count Zinzendorf died in 1760, he returned to Herrnhut, where he served on the directing board of the Moravian Brethren and spent his last years. Throughout this period he made several trips to England, Holland, and Silesia. Thereafter he was consecrated a bishop, and served in Livonia from 1745. In 1743 he remarried, this time to Anna Gertrude Engel. He married Anna Schindler on July 13, 1738, but she died during childbirth on December 12, 1739. As the work began to spread across the world, he realized that he could not do the job any more and it was his 1741 offer to resign that occasioned the Moravian Unity's realization that Jesus Christ is the only Head and Chief Elder of the Church. Later Yearsĭober returned to Europe since he had been chosen to serve as Chief Elder of the Moravian Brethren. Moravian missionaries baptized 13,000 converts before any other missionaries arrived on the scene. John’s, Jamaica, Antigua, Barbados, and St. Dober returned to Germany in 1734 (David Nitschmann had only gone to help Dober get settled and had left after only a few weeks), but other Moravian missionaries continued the work for fifty years afterward, establishing churches on St. Thomas, they lived frugally and preached to the slaves, and they had a certain amount of success. Leaving Copenhagen on Oct 8, 1732, they arrived in St. “If you go on like that,” exclaimed the Chamberlain, “you will stand your ground the wide world over.”Īlthough the Danish West Indian Company refused to grant them p*age, the two men eventually found sympathy at the Danish court, and with the help of a court officer they obtained berths on a ship bound for the West Indies. “Very well,” replied Nitschmann, “I am a carpenter, and will ply my trade.” “But,” said Von Plesz, “that is impossible. “We shall work,” replied Nitschmann, “as slaves among the slaves.” Von Plesz, the King’s Chamberlain, asked them how they would live. Even Anthony Ulrich, who had originally proposed the idea, began to have second thoughts. In Copenhagen, they again met with opposition to their plans. On August 20, 1732, Count Zinzendorf blessed the two young men, and after a prayer meeting sent them on to Copenhagen, where they were to find a ship bound for St. Instead, David Nitschmann was chosen to go with Dober to help start the Caribbean mission. Dober's lot read, "Let the lad go, for the Lord is with him," but Leupold's said that he must wait. Although they initially met with opposition from the Moravian Brethren, the doubts were eventually settled by drawing lots. Dober, along with his friend Tobias Leupold, felt called to go to the Caribbean, and they began to prepare for this work. Thomas named Anthony Ulrich, who believed that the slaves would be very receptive to Christian missionaries.
In his talk, Zinzendorf described a former slave from the Danish island of St. On July 24, 1731, he heard a talk given by Count Nikolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf about missions to the slaves of the Caribbean. He was converted at age 17 while visiting the Moravian church at Herrnhut. 6 External links Early Years in Germanyĭober learned the trade of pottery from his father.Johann Leonhard Dober (born March 7, 1706, Mönchsroth, Swabia, Germany to Johann Dober and Anna Barbara Link died April 1, 1766, Herrnhut, Saxony, Germany) was, along with David Nitschmann, one of the two first missionaries of the Moravian Brethren (Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine) in the West Indies in 1732.
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