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God's fields : landscape, religion, and race in Moravian Wachovia / Leland Ferguson.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Ferguson, Leland G.
Series:
Cultural heritage studies.
Cultural heritage studies
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Moravians--North Carolina--Winston-Salem--History.
Moravians.
African Americans--North Carolina--Winston-Salem--History.
African Americans.
Slavery--Religious aspects--Moravian Church.
Slavery.
Excavations (Archaeology)--North Carolina--Winston-Salem.
Excavations (Archaeology).
Slavery--North Carolina--History.
Salem (Winston-Salem, N.C.)--Church history.
Salem (Winston-Salem, N.C.).
Salem (Winston-Salem, N.C.)--Antiquities.
North Carolina--Race relations.
North Carolina.
Moravian Church (Winston-Salem, N.C.)--History.
Moravian Church (Winston-Salem, N.C.).
Physical Description:
1 online resource (305 p.)
Place of Publication:
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2011.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Leland Ferguson's work reconstructing this ""secret history"" through years of archaeological fieldwork was part of a historical preservation program that helped convince the Moravian Church in North America to formally apologize in 2006 for its participation in slavery and clear a way for racial reconciliation.
Contents:
A beginning
St. Philips archaeology
A unity of brethren
Landscape and piety
A town built upon a hillside
Strangers in the land
"A suitable quarter"
A disunity of brethren (with Michele Hughes)
Grave stories
"To be reconciled"
Appendix A. St. Philips Church joins Salem Congregation
Appendix B. Burials in the Salem Strangers' parish God's acre
Appendix C. Burials in the African American graveyard.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-8130-4059-0
OCLC:
758334179

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