“As elsewhere in the Americas, colonists in the region turned to enslaved workers to meet an insatiable demand for labor in an expanding economy,
— Read on www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/news/2018/04/25/suny-new-paltz-slavery-hidden-history-hudson-valley-coming-light/506377002/
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Why do the Amish and Hasidic Jews dress and live in a similar manner to one another?
{ Rightwing Religions: Where Do They Come From?
South Africa’s rightwing religions originated historically from a British movement dating from the nineteenth century. The British Israel movement expounded the theory that the British were the real descendants of Biblical Israel and thus God’s only chosen people.
They argued that the 10 so-called lost tribes of Israel, who vanished from history after being conquered in 720 before Christ, eventually settled in Britain.
Free State University theologian Sybrand Strauss, who earlier studied South Africa’s rightwing sects for the Dutch Reformed Church, says it is not clear how Afrikaners became involved in this movement.
However, a variation of the classic British Israel theory states that not only the British are descendants of Israel’s 10 lost tribes, but all the white peoples of the world.
Strauss classifies the different South African followings of this under the term White Israelism. These are people who put excessive accent on Israel, with the aim of religiously justifying their white racial purity. They teach racial segregation in all areas.
To Strauss South Africa’s White Israelism groups should not be categorised as sects, but rather as cults in the American style.
“Their power and psychological grip over their followers are typical of a cult,” Strauss says. }
https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/rightwing-religions-where-do-they-come-from-108250#
Huguenot (French Calvinists) immigrated to America about the same time as the first Amish came to Pennsylvania.
http://www.amishreader.com/2015/11/12/kapps-carriages-comparison-amish-huguenots-plus-giveaway/
{ Many Protestants took part in the expeditions to Brazil, Florida or South Carolina. It was a dream of instigated by the royal power and initiated by the admiral of Coligny to establish an Antarctic France. But it was short lived because of the competition with Spain, who finally won.
In the 17th century they were present in the Maritime Provinces or in the New England English colonies.
In 1620 when the famous Mayflower arrived in Plymouth there were French people on board. As early as 1662 many people of La Rochelle sent a petition to the governor of Massachusetts asking to settle there and “live with the English”. The reception was friendly. 150 families are estimated to have settled and soon anglicised their names. }
https://www.museeprotestant.org/en/notice/le-refuge-huguenot-en-amerique/
Excerpt from The Huguenots, the Jews, and Me By Armand Laferrere | A tale of French philo-Semitism:
{ I took a public stance in France in favor of Israel. Although my language and culture are French, I often feel more comfortable—morally and intellectually—in Israel than I do in my own country.
Yet I do not (as far as I know) have a single drop of Jewish blood in my veins. Neither did I, nor any member of my family, convert to Judaism. But philo-Semitism, which often includes an emotional identification with the Jewish people, is part of the heritage of the community I was raised in: The French Huguenots, or Protestants.
The first thread of a link between our two communities was woven from the very beginning of the history of French Protestantism. What most Jews remember of the European Reformation are, understandably, Martin Luther’s anti-Semitic statements. But Luther, with all due respect, is not the father of French Protestantism (there are Lutheran churches in eastern France, but their history is quite different from that of the Huguenots). Rather, our founding father is John Calvin, a Frenchman whose teachings started the most dramatic revolution in Christian-Jewish relations in the history of Christian theology. }
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