Uncommon ground : [electronic resource] archaeology and early African America, 1650-1800 / Leland Ferguson.
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TextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1992.Description: xlv, 186 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN: - 1560980583
- 9781560980582
- 1560980591 (pbk.)
- 9781560980599 (pbk.)
- Slavery -- South Carolina
- Slaves -- South Carolina -- Social conditions
- Plantations -- South Carolina
- South Carolina -- Antiquities
- South Carolina -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Antiquities
- Historia dos estados unidos
- Antropologia cult social
- Black persons Slaves History
- South Carolina
- Esclavage -- Caroline du Sud
- Esclaves -- Caroline du Sud -- Conditions sociales
- Plantations -- Caroline du Sud
- Noirs américains -- Caroline du Sud -- Antiquités
- Caroline du Sud -- Antiquités
- Caroline du Sud -- Histoire -- ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale)
- Geschichte (1650-1800)
- Archäologie
- USA
- Schwarze
- 975.7/00496073 20
- E445.S7 F37 1992
Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-176) and index.
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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