Uncommon Ground: Archaeology and Early African America, 1650-1800

Uncommon Ground: Archaeology and Early African America, 1650-1800
ISBN-10
1560980591
ISBN-13
9781560980599
Series
Uncommon Ground
Category
Social Science
Language
English
Published
2004-09-17
Publisher
Soho Press
Author
Leland Ferguson

Description

Winner of the Southern Anthropological Society's prestigious James Mooney Award, Uncommon Ground takes a unique archaeological approach to examining early African American life. Ferguson shows how black pioneers worked within the bars of bondage to shape their distinct identity and lay a rich foundation for the multicultural adjustments that became colonial America.Through pre-Revolutionary period artifacts gathered from plantations and urban slave communities, Ferguson integrates folklore, history, and research to reveal how these enslaved people actually lived. Impeccably researched and beautifully written.

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