Johann Martin Boltzius

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Lutheran minister Johann Martin Boltzius, along with religious refugees from Salzburger, founded the settlement of Ebenezer near Savannah in the early 1730s as a religious utopia. Boltzius hoped to create a successful economic system that was not dependent upon slavery.

Courtesy of Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries.

Johann Martin Boltzius

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