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God's fields : landscape, religion, and race in Moravian Wachovia / Leland Ferguson.
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Ebscohost Ebooks University Press Collection (North America)- 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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