"Contract between the Mission Society and the West Indian Christians going to Africa with Riis, Widmann and Thompson from Jamaica"

1) Form of services for the congregation and regulations for Church discipline of the Moravians to be maintained. 2) They are to serve willingly the mission, who will care for all their needs in the first two years. 3) The mission society takes the obligation to provide houses for the West Indians and gardens and to give one day a week free. 4) After the two years they may either work for themselves or for the mission society for a reasonably low wage. 5) If anybody wants to return after five years, the mission society will pay the passage, provided that he has not been guilty of moral aberration (sexual).

04.01.1843

04.01.1843

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