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Title Archaeologies of African American life in the upper Mid-Atlantic / edited by Michael J. Gall and Richard F. Veit
Published Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents 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
Summary "This collection provides a broad overview of the historical archaeology of African American life from the early 18th to the mid-20th century in New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware, and southeastern New York"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 9, 2017)
Subject 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
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
African Americans -- Antiquities
African Americans -- Social life and customs
Antiquities
Archaeology and history
Community life
Historic sites
Manners and customs
Race relations
SUBJECT Middle Atlantic States -- Antiquities
Middle Atlantic States -- Social life and customs
Middle Atlantic States -- History, Local
Middle Atlantic States -- Race relations -- History
Subject Middle Atlantic States
Genre/Form History
Local history
Form Electronic book
Author Gall, Michael J., 1979- editor.
Veit, Richard F., 1968- editor.
ISBN 9780817391508
0817391509