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Aaron Spencer Fogleman , Two Troubled Souls: An Eighteenth-Century Couple's Spiritual Journey in the Atlantic World (Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2013, $39.95). Pp. 336. isbn 978 1 4696 0879 2 .
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In Two Troubled Souls, Aaron Spencer Fogleman presents a remarkable portrait of a marriage, an intimate look into the partnership of Jean-François Reynier and Maria Barbara Knoll, whose travels took them on a dramatic circuit around the Atlantic world. Fogleman's research in Europe and America enables him to chronicle their travels from France to Germany to Surinam to St. Thomas to Pennsylvania to South Carolina in fine detail. Both of them were religious seekers, dedicated pietists whose thirst for a religious community brought them together, threatened to tear them apart, and involved them in one unlikely adventure after the next until their life journey ended in the backwoods of the Carolina frontier.
Jean-François Reynier's odyssey began in the picturesque town of Vevey on the shores of Lake Geneva. He was born into a large Huguenot family who fled France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. As a young man he was drawn into the circle around Madame de Warens,...