“An unusually revealing view of the transcontinental networks and radical thought and behavior in the tumultuous 18th-century Atlantic world. Recommended. All levels/libraries.” — CHOICE
“A compelling, deeply researched, and accessibly written microhistory of one couple’s journeys throughout the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.” — William and Mary Quarterly
“Fogleman offers a lens through which to better understand how individuals engaged with the 18th century Atlantic World and how men and women experienced many of its important aspects differently.” — NIU Today
“A rich microhistorical narrative.” — Journal of American History
“A well-told story that invites curiosity and reflection.” — Georgia Historical Quarterly
“Exhaustively researched and beautifully written.” — American Historical Review
“Anyone with an interest in the history of missions, the Atlantic world, the Moravians, or early American religious experiments will enjoy this book....This is careful scholarship written accessibly and with a biographer’s skill for story.” — Lutheran Quarterly
“An evocative and insightful microhistory that adds depth to our understanding of the integration of the Atlantic. . . . Recommended for anyone interested in early American and Caribbean history, and is essential reading for those who study interfaith and intercultural encounters in the early modern Atlantic world.” — New West Indian Guide
“In Aaron Fogleman’s delightful book, the human dramas and the distinctive characters of the Reyniers come through with clarity and poignancy — to read the first few pages is to want to read the rest. Fogleman portrays them shrewdly, sharply, compellingly, and compassionately. His scholarship is capacious and even audacious in its sweep and in its depth. In the telling of the Reyniers' story, we learn much about the tumultuous and brutal Atlantic world.” — Michael Zuckerman, author of Almost Chosen People: Oblique Biographies in the American Grain
“The eighteenth-century Atlantic world comes into surprising new perspective as Aaron Fogleman follows an adventurous missionary couple in Europe, the American colonies, and the Caribbean. In his deft hands, Maria Knoll and Jean-François Reynier come to life, both in the extensive networks of religious conversion and in the intimate exchange of a sometimes uneasy marriage. Two Troubled Souls is a great read, absorbing from start to finish.” — Natalie Zemon Davis, author of Women on the Margins
