During the American Revolution, local officials in Pennsylvania were required to compile a list of every enslaved man and woman in each county. Northampton County’s “slave register” was thought to be lost–but it was rediscovered in June 2022!
This register reveals surprising new information about enslaved men and women in Moravian Bethlehem and in its satellite communities.
This program is free for NCHGS members and $5.00 for non-members.
About Dr. Scott Gordon:
Scott Paul Gordon came to Lehigh University in 1995 and is currently the Andrew W. Mellon Chair at Lehigh. He teaches courses at the undergraduate and graduate level in eighteenth-century transatlantic literature. He has served as chair of the Department of English (2011-2016) and as chair of the Department of History (2018-2019), and he has directed Lehigh’s First-Year Writing Program (2003-2006) and the Lehigh University Press (2006-2011). In 2002 Gordon received the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching and was named a Class of 1961 Professor for the years 2002-2004.
Gordon’s edition of the vast correspondence of Mary Penry (1735-1804), who immigrated from Wales in 1744 and lived as a single sister in Moravian communities at Bethlehem and Lititz for nearly fifty years, was published by Penn State University Press in 2018 as The Letters of Mary Penry: A Single Moravian Woman in Early America. His current research focuses on religion, social ambition, and patriotism in colonial and revolutionary Pennsylvania by exploring the lives of “worldly Moravians.”