Archaeologies of African American Life in the Upper Mid-Atlantic /

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This groundbreaking volume explores the archaeology of African American life and cultures in the Upper Mid-Atlantic region, using sites dating from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. Sites in Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York are all examined, highlighting the potential f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Veit, Richard F., 1968- (Editor ), Gall, Michael J., 1979- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Historic sites > Middle Atlantic States.
Archaeology and history > Middle Atlantic States.
Community life > Middle Atlantic States > History.
African Americans > Middle Atlantic States > Social life and customs.
African Americans > Middle Atlantic States > Antiquities.
Middle Atlantic States > Race relations > History.
Middle Atlantic States > History, Local.
Middle Atlantic States > Social life and customs.
Middle Atlantic States > Antiquities.
Electronic books.
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.

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