num_pages: 186
description: Winner of the Southern Anthropological Society's prestigious James Mooney Award, Uncommon Ground takes a unique archaeological approach to examining early African American life. Ferguson shows how black pioneers worked within the bars of bondage to shape their distinct identity and lay a rich foundation for the multicultural adjustments that became colonial America.Through pre-Revolutionary period artifacts gathered from plantations and urban slave communities, Ferguson integrates folklore, history, and research to reveal how these enslaved people actually lived. Impeccably researched and beautifully written.
language: English
title: Uncommon Ground: Archaeology and Early African America, 1650-1800
titlecomplete: Uncommon Ground: Archaeology and Early African America, 1650-1800
genres: Academic, School, Archaeology, African American, Nonfiction, History, Anthropology
ratings_count: 93
publisher: Smithsonian Books