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Archaeologies of African American life in the upper Mid-Atlantic / edited by Michael J. Gall and Richard F. Veit.
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Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2017]
Description
272 pages ; 24 cm
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E185.9 .A73 2017
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Subject(s)
African Americans
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Middle Atlantic States
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Antiquities
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African Americans
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Middle Atlantic States
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Social life and customs
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Community life
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Middle Atlantic States
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History
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Archaeology and history
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Middle Atlantic States
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Historic sites
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Middle Atlantic States
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Middle Atlantic States
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Antiquities
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Middle Atlantic States
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Social life and customs
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Middle Atlantic States
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History, Local
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Middle Atlantic States
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Race relations
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History
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Editor
Gall, Michael J., 1979-
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Veit, Richard F., 1968-
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Gall, Michael J., 1979-
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Veit, Richard F., 1968-
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Summary note
"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.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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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ISBN
9780817319656 (hardcover)
0817319654 (hardcover)
LCCN
2017004052
OCLC
987491267
Other standard number
40027503839
RCP
C - S
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