TY - BOOK AU - Gall,Michael J. AU - Veit,Richard F. TI - Archaeologies of African American life in the upper Mid-Atlantic /edited by Michael J. Gall and Richard F. Veit SN - 9780817391508 AV - E185 .A734 2017 PY - 2017/// CY - Tuscaloosa PB - The University of Alabama Press KW - African Americans KW - Middle Atlantic States KW - Antiquities KW - Social life and customs KW - Community life KW - History KW - Archaeology and history KW - Historic sites KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Introduction: Exploring and contextualizing African American life in a cultural borderland, 1690s to 1950s; Michael J. Gall and Richard F. Veit --; Part I. Slavery and material culture --; Identifying an eighteenth-century slave quarter complex at the Cedar Creek Road site in southern Delaware; William B. Liebeknecht --; Colonoware in the upper Mid-Atlantic and Northeast; Keri J. Sansevere --; An archaeological view of slavery and social relations at Rock Hall, Lawrence, New York; Ross Thomas Rava and Christopher N. Matthews --; Part II. Housing, community, and labor --; Navigation and negotiation : adaptive strategies of a Free African American family in central Delaware; Michael J. Gall, Glenn R. Modica, and Tabitha C. Hilliard --; The material culture of tenancy : excavations at an African American tenant farm, Christiana, Pennsylvania; James A. Delle --; Mapping Marshalltown : documentary archaeology of a southern New Jersey landscape of emancipation; Janet L. Sheridan --; Tenants on the woodlot : the Bird-Houston site, St. Georges Hundred, Delaware; Jason P. Shellenhamer and John Bedell --; The relationships of race, class, and food in the African American community of Timbuctoo, New Jersey; Christopher Barton --; Part III. Death and memorialization --; "Born a slave, died free" : antebellum African American gravemarkers in northern New Jersey; Richard F. Veit and Mark Nonestied --; Above the valley and below the radar : Mount Gilead African Methodist Episcopal Church and its community; Meagan M. Ratini --; An African American Union soldier remembered : James Elbert and the African Union Church Cemetery in Polktown, Delaware; David Orr --; Part IV. Reflections --; Reflections on dynamic African American social cultures and communities in upper Mid-Atlantic, 1610s to 1950s; Christopher C. Fennell --; African American cultures and place in the greater Delaware Valley borderland --; 1620s to 1920s; Lu Ann De Cunzo; 2; b N2 - "This collection provides a broad overview of the historical archaeology of African American life from the early 18th to the mid-20th century in New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware, and southeastern New York"--Provided by publisher UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1612255&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -