Cabin, quarter, plantation : architecture and landscapes of North American slavery

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Full Title:: Cabin, quarter, plantation : architecture and landscapes of North American slavery / edited by Clifton Ellis and Rebecca Ginsburg

Subjects:: Enslaved persons--Dwellings--Social aspects--United States--History
Enslaved persons--Dwellings--Social aspects--West Indies--History
Plantation life--United States--History
Plantation life--West Indies--History
Landscapes--Social aspects--United States--History
Landscapes--Social aspects--West Indies--History
Space (Architecture)--Social aspects--United States--History
Space (Architecture)--Social aspects--West Indies--History

Table of Contents:: The home of the slave / W.E.B. Dubois -- Excavating the spaces and interpreting the places of enslaved Africans and their descendants / Garrett Fesler -- Escaping through a black landscape / Rebecca Ginsburg -- Accommodating slavery in Bermuda / Edward A. Chappell -- Slave villages in the Danish West Indies : changes of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / William Chapman -- White and black landscapes in eighteenth-century Virginia / Dell Upton -- Building for "our family, black and white" : the changing form of the slave house in antebellum Virginia / Clifton Ellis -- Space and place within plantation quarters in Virginia, 1700-1825 / Barbara Heath -- The big house and the slave quarters : African contributions to the new world / Carl Anthony -- The landscapes of northern bondage / Robert K. Fitts -- Slave housing in antebellum Tennessee / Michael Strutt -- "The balance principle" : slavery, freedom, and the formation of the nation / Cheryl Janifer LaRoche.
Bibliography:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language:: English
Physical Type/Description:: x, 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Catalog ID (MMSID):: 990016006140302486
ISBN:: 0300120427 (clothbound : alk. paper)
9780300120424 (clothbound : alk. paper)
OCLC Number:: 449853625
Barcode:: 010002458356