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Speaking for the enslaved : heritage interpretation at antebellum plantation sites / / Antoinette T. Jackson



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Autore: Jackson Antoinette T. Visualizza persona
Titolo: Speaking for the enslaved : heritage interpretation at antebellum plantation sites / / Antoinette T. Jackson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2016
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (179 p.)
Disciplina: 975
Soggetto topico: Historic sites - Interpretive programs - Southern States
Plantations - Southern States
African Americans - Southern States - Social life and customs
Plantation life - Southern States - History
Community life - Southern States - History
Material culture - Southern States - History
Public history - Social aspects - Southern States
Memory - Social aspects - Southern States
Soggetto geografico: Southern States Antiquities
Southern States Cultural policy
Note generali: First published 2012 by Left Coast Press, Inc.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Contents; List of Illustrations and Tables; Foreword - Paul A. Shackel; Preface; Chapter 1: History, Heritage, Memory, Place; Chapter 2: Issues in Cultural Heritage Tourism, Management, and Preservation; Chapter 3: Roots, Routes, and Representation: Friendfield Plantation and Michelle Obama's Very American Story; Chapter 4: Jehossee Island Rice Plantation: A World Class Ecosystem-Made in America by Africans in America; Chapter 5: "Tell Them We Were Never Sharecroppers" : The Snee Farm Plantation Community and the Charles Pinckney National Historic Site
Chapter 6: The Kingsley Plantation Community: A Multiracial and Multinational Profile of American HeritageChapter 7: Conclusion; Notes; References; Index; About the Author
Sommario/riassunto: Focusing on the agency of enslaved Africans and their descendants in the South, this work argues for the systematic unveiling and recovery of subjugated knowledge, histories, and cultural practices of those traditionally silenced and overlooked by national heritage projects and national public memories. Jackson uses both ethnographic and ethnohistorical data to show the various ways African Americans actively created and maintained their own heritage and cultural formations. Viewed through the lens of four distinctive plantation sites-including the one on which that the ancestors of First
Titolo autorizzato: Speaking for the enslaved  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-315-41995-5
1-315-41996-3
1-315-41997-1
1-59874-550-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910816559903321
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Serie: Heritage, Tourism & Community