Title & Author:

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

Publication:

New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, [2010]
©2010

Description:

x, 294 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-283) and index.
The home of the slave (1901) / 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 (1991) / William Chapman -- White and black landscapes in eighteenth-century Virginia (1985) / 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 (1976) / Carl Anthony -- The landscapes of northern bondage (1996) / Robert K. Fitts -- Slave housing in antebellum Tennessee / Michael Strutt -- "The balance principle" : slavery, freedom, and the formation of the nation / Cheryl Janifer LaRoche.

Summary:

Archaeological and historical scholarship completed over the past decade has revealed much about the built environments of slavery and the daily lives of enslaved workers in North America. Cabin, Quarter, Plantation is the first book to take this new research into account and comprehensively examine the architecture and landscapes of enslavement on plantations and farms.This important work brings together the best writing in the field, including classic pieces on slave landscapes by W. E. B. DuBois and Dell Upton, alongside new essays on such topics as the building methods that Africans brought to the American South and information about slave family units and spiritual practices that can be gathered from archaeological remains. Through deep analysis of the built environment the authors invite us to reconsider antebellum buildings, landscapes, cabins, yards, and garden plots, and what these sites can teach us about the real conditions of enslavement. The starting point in any study of slavery and the built environment, this anthology makes essential contributions to our understanding of American slavery and to the fields of landscape history and architectural history.

ISBN:

9780300120424 (clothbound ; alkaline paper)
0300120427 (clothbound ; alkaline paper)

Subject:

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.
Esclaves Habitations Aspect social États-Unis Histoire.
Esclaves Habitations Aspect social Antilles Histoire.
Vie dans les plantations États-Unis Histoire.
Vie dans les plantations Antilles Histoire.
Paysages Aspect social États-Unis Histoire.
Paysages Aspect social Antilles Histoire.
Espace (Architecture) Aspect social États-Unis Histoire.
Espace (Architecture) Aspect social Antilles Histoire.
Landscapes Social aspects
Plantation life
Space (Architecture) Social aspects
Slaves Dwellings Social aspects United States History.
Slaves Dwellings Social aspects West Indies History.
Landscape Social aspects United States History.
United States
West Indies

Form/genre:

Essays.
History

Added entries:

Ellis, Clifton, 1956- editor.
Ginsburg, Rebecca, 1963- editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 266975
Call No.: BIB 199024
Status: Available