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 capacityor lack thereoffor 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 mid1960s.