Cabin, Quarter, Plantation: Architecture and Landscapes of North American Slavery

Name/Title

Cabin, Quarter, Plantation: Architecture and Landscapes of North American Slavery

Entry/Object ID

2018.002.006

Description

Essays by a variety of authors that examine the architecture and landscapes of enslavement on North American plantations and farms. 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. x, 294 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Library

Acquisition

Accession

2018.002

Source or Donor

New Library Catalog Records (2018)

Acquisition Method

Found in Collection

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Slaves--Dwellings--Social aspects--United States--History, Slaves--Dwellings--Social aspects--West Indies--History, Plantation life--United States--History, Plantation life--West Indies--History, Landscapes--Social aspects--United States--History, Landscapes--Social aspects--West Indies--History, Space (Architecture)--Social aspects--United States--History, Space (Architecture)--Social aspects--West Indies--History

Book Details

Author

Ginsburg, Rebecca, 1963-, Ellis, Clifton, 1956-

Publisher

Yale University Press

Place Published

Location

New Haven, CT

Date Published

2010

Call No.

E443 .C325 2010

ISBN

9780300120424

Location

Location

Room

Museum Mgr's Office

Building

ARH

Category

Permanent

Date

February 7, 2023

General Notes

Note

Notes: Edited by Clifton Ellis and Rebecca Ginsburg.

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Create Date

March 27, 2018

Updated By

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Update Date

February 16, 2023