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Archaeologies of African American life in the upper Mid-Atlantic /

"This collection provides a broad overview of the historical archaeology of African American life from the early 18th to the mid-20th century in New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware, and southeastern New York"--Provided by publisher

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gall, Michael J., 1979- (Editor ), Veit, Richard F., 1968- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2017]
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Exploring and contextualizing African American life in a cultural borderland, 1690s to 1950s / Michael J. Gall and Richard F. Veit
  • Part I. Slavery and material culture
  • Identifying an eighteenth-century slave quarter complex at the Cedar Creek Road site in southern Delaware / William B. Liebeknecht
  • Colonoware in the upper Mid-Atlantic and Northeast / Keri J. Sansevere
  • An archaeological view of slavery and social relations at Rock Hall, Lawrence, New York / Ross Thomas Rava and Christopher N. Matthews
  • Part II. Housing, community, and labor
  • Navigation and negotiation : adaptive strategies of a Free African American family in central Delaware / Michael J. Gall, Glenn R. Modica, and Tabitha C. Hilliard
  • The material culture of tenancy : excavations at an African American tenant farm, Christiana, Pennsylvania / James A. Delle
  • Mapping Marshalltown : documentary archaeology of a southern New Jersey landscape of emancipation / Janet L. Sheridan
  • Tenants on the woodlot : the Bird-Houston site, St. Georges Hundred, Delaware / Jason P. Shellenhamer and John Bedell
  • The relationships of race, class, and food in the African American community of Timbuctoo, New Jersey / Christopher Barton
  • Part III. Death and memorialization
  • "Born a slave, died free" : antebellum African American gravemarkers in northern New Jersey / Richard F. Veit and Mark Nonestied
  • Above the valley and below the radar : Mount Gilead African Methodist Episcopal Church and its community / Meagan M. Ratini
  • An African American Union soldier remembered : James Elbert and the African Union Church Cemetery in Polktown, Delaware / David Orr
  • Part IV. Reflections
  • Reflections on dynamic African American social cultures and communities in upper Mid-Atlantic, 1610s to 1950s / Christopher C. Fennell
  • African American cultures and place in the greater Delaware Valley borderland
  • 1620s to 1920s / Lu Ann De Cunzo.