While contact with Native Americans was nothing unusual for European settlers in the Americas, it was tantamount to a sensation for people in Europe when a white slave trader shipped two American "princes" from Carolina to Europe as captives in 1719. The two men and their richly tattooed bodies were exhibited in London, Frankfurt, and Vienna, where onlookers could view them for the sum of eight kreutzers. But exotic sensationalism was not the only interest: Doctors and lawyers produced reports and even engravings of the two men's tattoos, and Protestant priests at Augustus the Strong's court in Dresden regarded the arrival of the pagans as a welcome opportunity to win two souls for Jesus Christ. But the journey of the two "princes" had not yet reached its end.
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