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Ferguson, Leland.

God's fields : landscape, religion, and race in Moravian Wachovia / Leland Ferguson. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2011. - 1 online resource (276 pages) - Cultural heritage studies . - Cultural heritage studies. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.


English.

ISBN: 9780813040592 0813040590

LCCN:

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Moravian Church--History.--North Carolina--Winston-Salem
Moravian Church

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Moravians--History.--North Carolina--Winston-Salem
African Americans--History.--North Carolina--Winston-Salem
Slavery--Religious aspects.
Excavations (Archaeology)--North Carolina--Winston-Salem.
Slavery--History.--North Carolina
Frères moraves--Histoire.--Caroline du Nord--Winston-Salem
Noirs américains--Histoire.--Caroline du Nord--Winston-Salem
Fouilles (Archéologie)--Caroline du Nord--Winston-Salem.
RELIGION--Christianity--Protestant.
African Americans
Antiquities
Excavations (Archaeology)
Moravians
Race relations
Slavery
Slavery--Religious aspects

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Salem (Winston-Salem, N.C.)--Church history.
Salem (Winston-Salem, N.C.)--Antiquities.
North Carolina--Race relations.
Caroline du Nord--Relations raciales.
North Carolina
North Carolina--Winston-Salem
North Carolina--Winston-Salem--Salem

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Church history
History

LC Class. No.: BX8568.W5 / F47 2011eb

Dewey Class. No.: 284.675667