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The Moravian church was kind of radical, I'm not religious but imo it's the closest thing to actual Christianity we've ever gotten. Overseas b there were Moravian church members who would sell themselves into slavery so they could preach to other slaves.
Before some of my family were sent off with the Cherokee on the trail of tears, half of them went up north to Pennsylvania and Ohio and were killed in the Gnadenhutten massacre during the revolutionary war. The survivors fled to Canada and would later be attacked after the battle of the Thames by the US cavalry expedition that killed Tecumseh during the war of 1812.