Creating freedom
Subtitle: material culture and African American identity at Oakley Plantation, Louisiana, 1840-1950
By: Laurie A. Wilkie.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: African Americans -- Louisiana -- West Feliciana Parish -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.; African Americans -- Louisiana -- West Feliciana Parish -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.; African Americans -- Louisiana -- West Feliciana Parish -- Ethnic identity.; Plantation life -- Louisiana -- West Feliciana Parish -- History -- 19th century.; Plantation life -- Louisiana -- West Feliciana Parish -- History -- 20th century.; Material culture -- Louisiana -- West Feliciana Parish.; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Louisiana -- West Feliciana Parish.; Oakley Plantation (La.); West Feliciana Parish (La.) -- Antiquities.
Description: "In Creating Freedom, historical archaeologist Laurie Wilkie seeks out the experiences of the majority of people who made their home on plantations: the African American laborers. Specifically, Wilkie examines the lives of four black families who lived at Oakley Plantation in south Louisiana's West Feliciana Parish over the course of one hundred years.

Using a blend of archaeological evidence and oral interviews, as well as written documents, she builds a composite of their daily existence that is at once riveting and humanizing in its detail and invaluable in its broader applications."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-286) and index.