ISBN:
9781469675688
,
9781469675671
Language:
English
Pages:
xviii, 272 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
,
24 cm
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.3620975
Keywords:
Geschichte
;
Plantage
;
Sklaverei
;
Schwarze
;
USA Südstaaten
;
Home / Southern States
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Enslaved persons / Southern States / Social life and customs
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Plantation life / Southern States / History
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Foyer / États-Unis (Sud)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery
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Enslaved persons / Social life and customs
;
Home
;
Plantation life
;
Southern States
;
History
;
USA Südstaaten
;
Schwarze
;
Plantage
;
Sklaverei
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
"The cultural memory of plantations in the Old South has long been clouded by myth. A recent reckoning with the centrality of slavery to the US national story, however, has shifted the meaning of these sites. Plantations are no longer simply seen as places of beauty and grandiose hospitality; their reality as spaces of enslavement, exploitation, and violence is increasingly at the forefront of our scholarly and public narratives. Yet even this reckoning obscures what these sites meant to so many forced to live and labor on them: plantations were Black homes as much as white. Insightfully reading the built environment of plantations, considering artifact fragments found in excavations of slave dwellings, and drawing on legal records and plantation owners' papers, Whitney Nell Stewart illuminates how enslaved people struggled to make home amid innumerable constraints and obstacles imposed by white southerners. By exploring the material remnants of the past, Stewart demonstrates how homemaking was a crucial part of the battle over slavery and freedom, a fight that continues today in consequential confrontations over who has the right to call this nation home"
Description / Table of Contents:
Home in slavery -- Demarcating home and labor: Montpelier Plantation, Virginia -- Concealing for privacy and protection: Stagville Plantation, North Carolina -- Rooting one's people: Chatham Plantation, Alabama -- Projecting domestic authority: Patton Place, Texas -- Building stability and legacy: Redcliffe Plantation, South Carolina -- Home in freedom
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