Cabin, quarter, plantation
Subtitle: architecture and landscapes of North American slavery
By: edited by Clifton Ellis and Rebecca Ginsburg.
Contributors: Ellis, Clifton, 1956-; Ginsburg, Rebecca, 1963-
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780300120424
Subjects: Slaves -- Dwellings -- Social aspects -- United States -- History; Slaves -- Dwellings -- Social aspects -- West Indies -- History; Plantation life -- United States -- History; Plantation life -- West Indies -- History; Landscape -- Social aspects -- United States -- History; Landscape -- Social aspects -- West Indies -- History; Space (Architecture) -- Social aspects -- United States -- History; Space (Architecture) -- Social aspects -- West Indies -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The problem of housing the Negro / W.E.B. Dubois; title: Excavating the spaces and interpreting the places of enslaved Africans and their descendants / Garrett Fesler; title: Escaping through a black landscape / Rebecca Ginsburg; title: Accommodating slavery in Bermuda / Ed Chappell; title: Slave villages in the Danish West Indies : changes of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / William Chapman; title: White and black landscapes in eighteenth-century Virginia / Dell Upton; title: Building for "our black family" : the changing form of the slave house in antebellum Virginia / Clifton Ellis; title: Space and place within plantation quarters in Virginia, 1700-1825 / Barbara Heath; title: The big house and the slave quarters : African contributions to the new world / Carl Anthony; title: The landscapes of northern bondage / Robert k. Fitts; title: Slave housing in antebellum Tennessee / Michael Strutt; title: "The balance principle" : slavery, freedom, and the formation of the nation / Cheryl Jenifer Laroche.