Uncommon Ground
Archaeology and Early African America, 1650-1800
1st Edition
Published on 11. January 2012
232 pages
978-1-58834-358-1 (ISBN)
Description
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 shows how black pioneers worked within the bars of bondage to shape their distinct identity and lay a rich foundation for the multicultural adjustments that became colonial America.Through pre-Revolutionary period artifacts gathered from plantations and urban slave communities, Ferguson integrates folklore, history, and research to reveal how these enslaved people actually lived. Impeccably researched and beautifully written.
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Leland Ferguson is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of South Carolina, Columbia.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- African American Pioneers
- Finding the "Negro Houses"
- Introduction
- Unsuspected Treasure
- African American Archaeology
- Goals and Problems
- Creolization, Symbols, and Power
- Chapter 1: Handmade Pots
- Remembering Clay Pots
- Williamsburg and Colono-Indian Ware
- Carolina Discoveries
- Colono Ware
- Finding Pots
- Chapter 2: North America's Slave Coast
- Black Colonists
- Spanish Settlements
- Tidewater Tobacco Farms
- Lowcountry Rice Plantations
- Chapter 3: Carolina's African American Majority
- Ground Houses
- Making Mosojo
- Food for Nyam
- Cooking and Eating
- Chapter 4: Powerful Legacy
- Summer Night
- Magic Bowls
- Archaeology and African American Resistance
- Epilogue
- Appendix 1. Provenience of Colono Ware Vessels from South Carolina and Virginia by County
- Appendix 2. Specimen Numbers for Whole Vessels Shown in Figures
- Appendix 3. Colono Ware and Architectural Data
- Notes
- References Cited
