Uncommon ground : archaeology and early African America, 1650-1800

Ferguson, Leland G. (Author).

Item details

ISBN: 1560980583
ISBN: 9781560980582
ISBN: 1560980591 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9781560980599 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
xlv, 186 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1992.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-176) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Prologue. African American pioneers ; Finding the "Negro houses" -- Introduction. Unsuspected treasure ; African American archaeology ; Goals and problems ; Creolization, symbols, and power -- Handmade pots. Remembering clay pots ; Williamsburg and Colono-Indian ware ; Carolina discoveries ; Colono ware ; Finding pots -- North America's slave coast. Black colonists ; Spanish settlements ; Tidewater tobacco farms ; Lowcountry rice plantations -- Carolina's African American majority. Ground houses ; Making mosojo ; Food for nyam ; Cooking and eating -- Powerful legacy. Summer night ; Magic bowls ; Archaeology and African American resistance -- Appendix 1. Provenience of Colono ware vessels from South Carolina and Virginia by county -- Appendix 2. Specimen numbers for whole vessels show in figures -- Appendix 3. Colono ware and architectural data.

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