#voglerhouse

[oldsalem]

By the time the Vogler Family began living in this house in 1819, changes were taking place in the relationship between Salem’s European Americans and African Americans, changes that began to undermine the biracial tolerance that had existed in the 18th century.  The Vogler family was quite influential with the enslaved population in and around Salem. In John's household in the 1850s was a young enslaved woman named Bethy. After her baptism at the African church in 1851, she was a baptism sponsor of over a dozen enslaved children before she left the church in 1865. Elias Vogler, John Vogler's only son, was superintendent on the Sunday school at the African Moravian church from 1866 until 1871.