Archaeologies of African American life in the upper Mid-Atlantic / / edited by Michael J. Gall and Richard F. Veit

• Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : The University of Ala bama Press, , 2017; ©2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 PDF (272 pages) :) : illustrations, maps
• Disciplina: 974/.0496073009033
• Soggetto topico: African Americans - Middle Atlantic States - Antiquities; African Americans - Middle Atlantic States - Social life and customs; Community life - Middle Atlantic States - History; Archaeology and history - Middle Atlantic States; Historic sites - Middle Atlantic States
• Soggetto geografico: Middle Atlantic States Antiquities; Middle Atlantic States Social life and customs; Middle Atlantic States History, Local; Middle Atlantic States Race relations History
• Persona (resp. second.): GallMichael J. <1979->; VeitRichard F. <1968->
• Note generali: Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 for historical archaeology to illuminate the often overlooked contributions and experiences of the region's free and enslaved African American settlers. Archaeologies of African American Life in the Upper Mid-Atlantic brings together cutting-edge scholarship from both emerging and established scholars. Analyzing the research through sophisticated theoretical lenses and employing up-to-date methodologies, the essays reveal the diverse ways in which African Americans reacted to and resisted the challenges posed by life in a borderland between the North and South through the transition from slavery to freedom. In addition to extensive archival research, contributors synthesize the material finds of archaeological work in slave quarter sites, tenant farms, communities, and graveyards. Editors Michael J. Gall and Richard F. Veit have gathered new and nuanced perspectives on the important role free and enslaved African Americans played in the region's cultural history. This collection provides scholars of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions, African American studies, material culture studies, religious studies, slavery, the African diaspora, and historical archaeologists with a well-balanced array of rural archaeological sites that represent cultural traditions and developments among African Americans in the region. Collectively, these sites illustrate African Americans' formation of fluid cultural and racial identities, communities, religious traditions, and modes of navigating complex cultural landscapes in the region under harsh and disenfranchising circumstances.
• Titolo autorizzato: Archaeologies of African American life in the upper Mid-Atlantic
• ISBN: 0-8173-9150-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910795240903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II