Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-283) and index.
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.