God's Fields : Landscape, Religion, and Race in Moravian Wachovia /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ferguson, Leland
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Moravian Church.
Moravian Church > North Carolina > Winston-Salem > History.
Slavery > Religious aspects.
Slavery.
Race relations.
Moravians.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Antiquities.
African Americans.
RELIGION > Christianity > Protestant.
Fouilles (Archeologie) > Caroline du Nord > Winston-Salem.
Noirs americains > Caroline du Nord > Winston-Salem > Histoire.
Freres moraves > Caroline du Nord > Winston-Salem > Histoire.
Slavery > North Carolina > History.
Excavations (Archaeology) > North Carolina > Winston-Salem.
African Americans > North Carolina > Winston-Salem > History.
Moravians > North Carolina > Winston-Salem > History.
North Carolina > Winston-Salem > Salem.
North Carolina > Winston-Salem.
North Carolina.
Caroline du Nord > Relations raciales.
North Carolina > Race relations.
Salem (Winston-Salem, N.C.) > Antiquities.
Salem (Winston-Salem, N.C.) > Church history.
History.
Church history.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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