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By Leland Ferguson

The Moravian neighborhood of Salem, North Carolina, was once based in 1766, and the townthe hub of approximately 100,000 piedmont acres bought 13 years sooner than and named Wachoviaquickly turned the focus for the churchs colonial presence within the South. whereas the brethren preached the cohesion of all people lower than God, a cautious research of the delivery and progress in their Salem payment finds that the gang steadily embraced the associations of slavery and racial segregation towards their non secular ideals. even though Salems still-active neighborhood contains one of many oldest African American congregations within the country, the facts contained in Gods Fields finds that in a lot of the 20th century, the churchs segregationist prior used to be deliberately hid. Leland Ferguson's paintings reconstructing this "secret historical past" via years of archaeological fieldwork used to be a part of a historic upkeep software that helped persuade the Moravian Church in North the USA to officially say sorry in 2006 for its participation in slavery and transparent a fashion for racial reconciliation.

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Graves exposed on the northern side of the St. Philips churchyard. Five rows of adult-size graves of the African American graveyard in the foreground, with in situ gravestone, lower right. Two rows of thirteen child-size graves of the African American graveyard are in background, and seven adult-size graves from the old Strangers’ God’s Acre are next to the church wall. 6. Recovered burials and graveyard layout at the St. Philips Church Complex. ) the Strangers’ God’s Acre. A decision made about one site often impacted the other.

Main Street, connecting old Salem to the bustling center of Winston, ran along the western side of the square; the intersection of Main and Academy streets at the northwest corner of the square was the busiest in Salem. On one corner was a drugstore and the original Krispy Kreme doughnut shop. Diagonally across from one another on the other two corners stood old Moravian buildings—the Single Brothers’ House and the Boys’ School, home of the Wachovia Museum. ”27 I appreciated all the relics, but most of all I was excited to discover that the old museum exhibited most of the prehistoric artifacts illustrated in Douglas Rights’s book.

During 1993 excavations at St. Philips, this difference surfaced in a humorous manner. That summer, Claudio Saunt, a Duke University graduate student in history, served as assistant director of the project. Saunt led discussions on African American history, ranging from Nat Turner’s Rebellion to the Civil Rights Movement; in turn, he learned about history on the land and in the ground. Once, as we were digging, Saunt and I had a conversation that led to an exciting question that we could answer if we knew when a particular person in nineteenth-century Salem had died.

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