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Author Ferguson, Leland.

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

Publication Info. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2011.
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Description 1 online resource (276 pages).
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Series Cultural heritage studies
Cultural heritage studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-257) and index.
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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Subject Moravian Church -- North Carolina -- Winston-Salem -- History.
Moravian Church.
North Carolina -- Winston-Salem.
History.
Moravians -- North Carolina -- Winston-Salem -- History.
Moravians.
African Americans -- North Carolina -- Winston-Salem -- History.
African Americans.
Salem (Winston-Salem, N.C.) -- Church history.
Slavery -- Religious aspects.
Slavery -- Religious aspects.
Salem (Winston-Salem, N.C.) -- Antiquities.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- North Carolina -- Winston-Salem.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Slavery -- North Carolina -- History.
Slavery.
North Carolina.
North Carolina -- Race relations.
Race relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Church history.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Ferguson, Leland. God's Fields : Landscape, Religion, and Race in Moravian Wachovia. Gainesville : UPF, ©2011 9780813037486
ISBN 9780813040592 (electronic book)
0813040590 (electronic book)
9780813037486 (alkaline paper)

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