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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (287 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780817391508
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Archaeologies of African American Life in the Upper Mid-AtlanticDDC classification:
  • 973.0496073
LOC classification:
  • E185
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Exploring and Contextualizing Historic African American Life in a Cultural Borderland, 1690s to 1950s / Michael J. Gall and Richard F. Veit -- Part I. Slavery and Material Culture -- 1. Identifying an Eighteenth-Century Slave Quarter Complex at the Cedar Creek Road Site in Southern Delaware / William B. Liebeknecht -- 2. Colonoware in the Upper Mid-Atlantic and Northeast / Keri J. Sansevere -- 3. 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 -- 4. Navigation and Negotiation: Adaptive Strategies of a Free African American Family in Central Delaware / Michael J. Gall, Glenn R. Modica, and Tabitha C. Hilliard -- 5. The Material Culture of Tenancy: Excavations at an African American Tenant Farm, Christiana, Pennsylvania / James A. Delle -- 6. Mapping Marshalltown: Documentary Archaeology of a Southern New Jersey Landscape of Emancipation / Janet L. Sheridan -- 7. Tenants on the Woodlot: The Bird-Houston Site, St. Georges Hundred, Delaware / Jason P. Shellenhamer and John Bedell -- 8. The Relationships of Race, Class, and Food in the African American Community of Timbuctoo, New Jersey / Christopher Barton -- Part III. Death and Memorialization -- 9. "Born a Slave, Died Free:" Antebellum African American Gravemarkers in Northern New Jersey / Richard F. Veit and Mark Nonestied -- 10. Above the Valley and Below the Radar: Mount Gilead African Methodist Episcopal Church and Its Community / Meagan M. Ratini -- 11. An African American Union Soldier Remembered: James Elbert and the African Union Church Cemetery in Polktown, Delaware / David Orr -- Part IV. Reflections.
12. Reflections on Dynamic African American Social Cultures and Communities in the Upper Mid-Atlantic, 1610s to 1950s / Christopher C. Fennell -- 13. African American Cultures and Place in the Greater Delaware Valley Borderland, 1620s to 1920s / Lu Ann De Cunzo -- References Cited -- Contributors -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Exploring and Contextualizing Historic African American Life in a Cultural Borderland, 1690s to 1950s / Michael J. Gall and Richard F. Veit -- Part I. Slavery and Material Culture -- 1. Identifying an Eighteenth-Century Slave Quarter Complex at the Cedar Creek Road Site in Southern Delaware / William B. Liebeknecht -- 2. Colonoware in the Upper Mid-Atlantic and Northeast / Keri J. Sansevere -- 3. 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 -- 4. Navigation and Negotiation: Adaptive Strategies of a Free African American Family in Central Delaware / Michael J. Gall, Glenn R. Modica, and Tabitha C. Hilliard -- 5. The Material Culture of Tenancy: Excavations at an African American Tenant Farm, Christiana, Pennsylvania / James A. Delle -- 6. Mapping Marshalltown: Documentary Archaeology of a Southern New Jersey Landscape of Emancipation / Janet L. Sheridan -- 7. Tenants on the Woodlot: The Bird-Houston Site, St. Georges Hundred, Delaware / Jason P. Shellenhamer and John Bedell -- 8. The Relationships of Race, Class, and Food in the African American Community of Timbuctoo, New Jersey / Christopher Barton -- Part III. Death and Memorialization -- 9. "Born a Slave, Died Free:" Antebellum African American Gravemarkers in Northern New Jersey / Richard F. Veit and Mark Nonestied -- 10. Above the Valley and Below the Radar: Mount Gilead African Methodist Episcopal Church and Its Community / Meagan M. Ratini -- 11. An African American Union Soldier Remembered: James Elbert and the African Union Church Cemetery in Polktown, Delaware / David Orr -- Part IV. Reflections.

12. Reflections on Dynamic African American Social Cultures and Communities in the Upper Mid-Atlantic, 1610s to 1950s / Christopher C. Fennell -- 13. African American Cultures and Place in the Greater Delaware Valley Borderland, 1620s to 1920s / Lu Ann De Cunzo -- References Cited -- Contributors -- Index.

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