UNCOMMON GROUND: Archaeology and Early African America 1650-1800

Author - Leland Ferguson ... [Goo?] [Posters]

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1) Paperback Book UNCOMMON GROUND: Archaeology and Early African America 1650-1800 by Smithsonian. This book provides insight into the physical evidence being unearthed and explored by archaeologists engaged in the study of early colonial African American sites. While some of the content is a tad dry ,Professor Ferguson´s enthusiasm for his subject manages to infuse much of this book with a sense of excitement that obviously drives the individuals engaged in this research.

Primarily focused on early plantation life in South Carolina, the book provides some fascinating comparisons between the rice culture there and the tobacco culture in Virginia explaining the effect of these differing lifestyles and then integrating the physical evidence into that discussion.

The book contains extensive appendices that list the major findings by location.¤

2) Paperback Book UNCOMMON GROUND: Archaeology and Early African America 1650-1800 by Smithsonian. A pioneering book in the relatively recent field of African American archaeology.

Winner of the Southern Anthropological Society´s prestigious James Mooney Award, Uncommon Ground takes a unique archaeological approach to examining early African American life. Ferguson´s provocative results show black pioneers working within the bars of bondage to shape their distinct identity and to lay a rich foundation for the multicultural adjustments that became colonial America. Through artifacts gathered from plantations and urban slave communities during the pre-Revolutionary period, Ferguson integrates folklore, history, and research to reveal how these enslaved people actually lived. Recovered potshards tell of economic interrelations between plantation slaves and Native Americans, and ritual objects open up a discussion of African slave religion. Impeccably researched and beautifully written. 41 b/w photographs, 37 b/w illustrations.¤

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