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Our Trespasses: White Churches and the Taking of American Neighborhoods

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Fortress Press
  • 15.2 x 22.9 x 2.1 cm

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Our Trespasses uncovers how race, geography, policy, and religion have created haunted landscapes in Charlotte, North Carolina, and throughout the United States. How do we value our lands, livelihoods, and communities? How does our theology inform our capacity--or lack thereof--for memory? What responsibilities do we bear toward those who have been harmed, not just by individuals but by our structures and collective ways of being in the world?

Abram and Annie North, both born enslaved, purchased a home in the historically Black neighborhood of Brooklyn in the years following the Civil War. Today, the site of that home stands tucked beneath a corner of the First Baptist Church property on a site purchased under the favorable terms of Urban Renewal campaigns in the mid-1960s. How did FBC wind up in what used to be Brooklyn--a neighborhood that no longer exists? What happened to the Norths? How might we heal these hauntings? This is an American story with implications far beyond Brooklyn, Charlotte, or even the South. By carefully tracing the intertwined fortunes of First Baptist Church and the formerly enslaved North family, Jarrell opens our eyes to uncomfortable truths with which we all must reckon.

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  • Author

    Greg Jarrell

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Fortress Press

  • Published

    February 2024

  • Weight

    318g

  • Dimensions

    15.2 x 22.9 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9781506494920

  • ISBN-10

    1506494927

  • Eden Code

    6291501

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