Souls for Sale: Two German Redemptioners Come to Revolutionary America: The Life Stories of John Frederick Whitehead and Johann Carl Buttner Peace & Justice life cycle

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and everyday acts of racism within the larger framework of white supremacy

A thought-provoking book on contentment

Souls for Sale: Two German Redemptioners Come to Revolutionary America: The Life Stories of John Frederick Whitehead and Johann Carl Buttner Peace & Justice life cycleCo edited by Susan E. Klepp, Farley Grubb, Anne Pfaelzer de Ortiz. In 1773, John Frederick Whitehead and Johann Carl Buttner, two adolescent Germans, were placed on board the same ship headed to colonial America. With few options in Germany, each had been recruited by the labor contractors known popularly as soulsellers men who traded in human cargo. On arrival in America they were sold to different masters, and, years later, each wrote a memoir of