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Author Moyer, Teresa S., 1976- author.

Title Ancestors of worthy life : plantation slavery and black heritage at Mount Clare / Teresa S. Moyer ; foreword by Paul A. Shackel
Published Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource
Series Cultural heritage studies
Cultural heritage studies.
Contents Introduction -- Slavery and iron at Georgia -- The creation of Mount Clare -- Slavery and revolution -- White widowhood -- Manumission and freedom -- A broader history -- Conclusion
Summary America plantation sites are reluctant to show and interpret the homes and lives of the slaves that used to reside there in times of slavery. Mount Clare is one such site and Teresa Moyer examines the lives of its former slaves and the issues keeping these findings hidden. Raising questions about how race continues to affect the decisions made at historic sites, Moyer discovers that slaves at Mount Clare adopted the ceremonies of their owners while still exercising their freedoms of family and homeland culture
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Mount Clare (Baltimore, Md. : Building) -- History
SUBJECT Mount Clare (Baltimore, Md. : Building) fast
Subject Slavery -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- History
Historic buildings -- Maryland -- Baltimore
African Americans -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- History
Enslaved persons -- Dwellings -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- History
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
African Americans
Buildings
Historic buildings
Slavery
Enslaved persons -- Dwellings
SUBJECT Baltimore (Md.) -- Buildings, structures, etc
Subject Maryland -- Baltimore
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Shackel, Paul A., writer of foreword
ISBN 9780813055121
0813055121
9780813050720
0813050723