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

By: Series: Cultural heritage studiesPublication details: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (276 p.)ISBN:
  • 9780813040592 (electronic bk.)
  • 0813040590 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: God's Fields : Landscape, Religion, and Race in Moravian WachoviaDDC classification:
  • 284.675667 23
LOC classification:
  • BX8568.W5 F47 2011eb
Online resources:
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.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-257) and index.

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.

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.

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