God's fields [electronic resource] : landscape, religion, and race in Moravian Wachovia / Leland Ferguson.
Series: Cultural heritage studiesPublication details: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (276 p.)ISBN:- 9780813040592 (electronic bk.)
- 0813040590 (electronic bk.)
- Moravian Church -- North Carolina -- Winston-Salem -- History
- Moravians -- North Carolina -- Winston-Salem -- History
- African Americans -- North Carolina -- Winston-Salem -- History
- Salem (Winston-Salem, N.C.) -- Church history
- Slavery -- Religious aspects
- Salem (Winston-Salem, N.C.) -- Antiquities
- Excavations (Archaeology) -- North Carolina -- Winston-Salem
- Slavery -- North Carolina -- History
- North Carolina -- Race relations
- African Americans -- North Carolina -- Winston-Salem -- History
- Excavations (Archaeology) -- North Carolina -- Winston-Salem
- Moravian Church -- North Carolina -- Winston-Salem -- History
- Moravians -- North Carolina -- Winston-Salem -- History
- North Carolina -- Race relations
- Salem (Winston-Salem, N.C.) -- Antiquities
- Salem (Winston-Salem, N.C.) -- Church history
- Slavery -- North Carolina -- History
- Slavery -- Religious aspects -- Moravian Church
- Religion
- RELIGION / Christianity / Protestant
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- BX8568.W5 F47 2011eb
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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