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005 20190716140233.0
008 170512s2017 aluab b s001 0 eng
010 _a 2017004052
020 _a9780817319656 (cloth)
020 _z9780817391508 (ebook)
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_beng
_erda
_cDLC
_dDLC
050 0 0 _aE185.9
_b.A73 2017
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245 0 0 _aArchaeologies of African American life in the upper Mid-Atlantic /
_cedited by Michael J. Gall and Richard F. Veit.
264 1 _aTuscaloosa :
_bThe University of Alabama Press,
_c[2017]
300 _a272 pages :
_billustrations, maps ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
520 2 _a"This collection provides a broad overview of the historical archaeology of African American life from the early 18th to the mid-20th century in New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware, and southeastern New York"--Provided by publisher.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 213-255) and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: Exploring and contextualizing African American life in a cultural borderland, 1690s to 1950s / Michael J. Gall and Richard F. Veit -- Part I. Slavery and material culture -- Identifying an eighteenth-century slave quarter complex at the Cedar Creek Road site in southern Delaware / William B. Liebeknecht -- Colonoware in the upper Mid-Atlantic and Northeast / Keri J. Sansevere -- An archaeological view of slavery and social relations at Rock Hall, Lawrence, New York / Ross Thomas Rava and Christopher N. Matthews -- Part II. Housing, community, and labor -- Navigation and negotiation : adaptive strategies of a Free African American family in central Delaware / Michael J. Gall, Glenn R. Modica, and Tabitha C. Hilliard -- The material culture of tenancy : excavations at an African American tenant farm, Christiana, Pennsylvania / James A. Delle -- Mapping Marshalltown : documentary archaeology of a southern New Jersey landscape of emancipation / Janet L. Sheridan -- Tenants on the woodlot : the Bird-Houston site, St. Georges Hundred, Delaware / Jason P. Shellenhamer and John Bedell -- The relationships of race, class, and food in the African American community of Timbuctoo, New Jersey / Christopher Barton -- Part III. Death and memorialization -- "Born a slave, died free" : antebellum African American gravemarkers in northern New Jersey / Richard F. Veit and Mark Nonestied -- Above the valley and below the radar : Mount Gilead African Methodist Episcopal Church and its community / Meagan M. Ratini -- An African American Union soldier remembered : James Elbert and the African Union Church Cemetery in Polktown, Delaware / David Orr -- Part IV. Reflections -- Reflections on dynamic African American social cultures and communities in upper Mid-Atlantic, 1610s to 1950s / Christopher C. Fennell -- African American cultures and place in the greater Delaware Valley borderland -- 1620s to 1920s / Lu Ann De Cunzo.
650 0 _aAfrican Americans
_zMiddle Atlantic States
_xAntiquities.
650 0 _aAfrican Americans
_zMiddle Atlantic States
_xSocial life and customs.
650 0 _aCommunity life
_zMiddle Atlantic States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aArchaeology and history
_zMiddle Atlantic States.
650 0 _aHistoric sites
_zMiddle Atlantic States.
651 0 _aMiddle Atlantic States
_xAntiquities.
651 0 _aMiddle Atlantic States
_xSocial life and customs.
651 0 _aMiddle Atlantic States
_xHistory, Local.
651 0 _aMiddle Atlantic States
_xRace relations
_xHistory.
700 1 _aGall, Michael J.,
_d1979-
700 1 _aVeit, Richard F.,
_d1968-
999 _c233942
_d233942