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

Publication Info. New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, [2010]
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  973.711 C115C    Check Shelf
Description x, 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography 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.
Subject Space (Architecture) -- Social aspects -- West Indies -- History.
Enslaved persons -- Dwellings -- Social aspects -- West Indies -- History.
Landscapes -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
Plantation life -- West Indies -- History.
Landscapes -- Social aspects -- West Indies -- History.
Enslaved persons -- Dwellings -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
Plantation life -- United States -- History.
Space (Architecture) -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
Added Author Ellis, Clifton, 1956-
Ginsburg, Rebecca, 1963-
ISBN 9780300120424 clothbound alkaline paper
0300120427 clothbound alkaline paper
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