In 1835, Winston and Salem was a well-ordered, bucolic, and
attractive North Carolina town. A visitor could walk up Main Street
from the village square and get a sense of the quiet Moravian
community that had settled there. Yet, over the next half-century,
this idyllic village was to experience dramatic changes. While
calling forth images of great factories, mills, and machinery, the
industrial revolution involved far more than mere changes in modes
of production. The essence of industrialization was nothing less
than the full-scale societal transformation of economic, social,
and political institutions, as well as the emergence of a new
mind-set that brought about new ways of thinking and acting. In
this compellingly descriptive account, Michael Shirley examines the
case of Salem, a community of artisans and small farmers united, as
members of a religious congregation, by a single vision of life.
Transformed in just a few decades from an agricultural region into
the home of the smokestacks and office towers of the R. J. Reynolds
Tobacco Company and the Wachovia Bank and Trust Company, the
Moravian community at Salem offers an illuminating illustration of
the changes that swept Southern society in the nineteenth century
and the concomitant development in these communities of a new
ethos. While providing a wealth of information about the
Winston-Salem community specifically, Michael Shirley's book also
significantly broadens our understanding of how wholesale changes
in the nineteenth-century South redefined the meaning and
experience of community. For, by the end of the century, community
had an entirely new meaning, namely as a forum in which competing
individuals pursued privateopportunities and interests.
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