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Slavery --- Plantation life --- Esclavage --- Vie dans les plantations --- History --- Histoire

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African Americans --- Plantation life --- Noirs américains --- Vie dans les plantations --- Social life and customs --- Moeurs et coutumes

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Plantation life --- Slavery --- Enslaved persons --- Vie dans les plantations --- Esclavage --- Esclaves --- History --- Condition of slaves. --- History --- Histoire --- Condition des esclaves --- Histoire --- South Carolina --- Caroline du Sud --- Race relations --- Relations raciales

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Archaeological and historical scholarship completed over the past decade has revealed much about the built environments of slavery and the daily lives of enslaved workers in North America. Cabin, Quarter, Plantation is the first book to take this new research into account and comprehensively examine the architecture and landscapes of enslavement on plantations and farms. This important work brings together the best writing in the field, including classic pieces on slave landscapes by W. E. B. DuBois and Dell Upton, alongside new essays on such topics as the building methods that Africans brought to the American South and information about slave family units and spiritual practices that can be gathered from archaeological remains. Through deep analysis of the built environment the authors invite us to reconsider antebellum buildings, landscapes, cabins, yards, and garden plots, and what these sites can teach us about the real conditions of enslavement. The starting point in any study of slavery and the built environment, this anthology makes essential contributions to our understanding of American slavery and to the fields of landscape history and architectural history.

Enslaved persons --- Enslaved persons --- Plantation life --- Plantation life --- Landscapes --- Landscapes --- Space (Architecture) --- Space (Architecture) --- Enslaved persons --- Esclaves --- Esclaves --- Vie dans les plantations --- Vie dans les plantations --- Paysages --- Paysages --- Espace (Architecture) --- Espace (Architecture) --- Esclaves --- Dwellings --- Social aspects --- History. --- Dwellings --- Social aspects --- History. --- History. --- History. --- Social aspects --- History. --- Social aspects --- History. --- Social aspects --- History. --- Social aspects --- History. --- Social conditions. --- Habitations --- Aspect social --- Histoire --- Habitations --- Aspect social --- Histoire --- Histoire --- Histoire --- Aspect social --- Histoire --- Aspect social --- Histoire --- Aspect social --- Histoire --- Aspect social --- Histoire --- Conditions sociales

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Behind the "Big Houses" of the antebellum South existed a different world, socially and architecturally, where slaves lived and worked. John Michael Vlach explores the structures and spaces that formed the slaves' environment. Through photographs and the words of former slaves, he portrays the plantation landscape from the slaves' own point of view. The plantation landscape was chiefly the creation of slaveholders, but Vlach argues convincingly that slaves imbued this landscape with their own meanings. Their subtle acts of appropriation constituted one of the more effective strategies of slave resistance and one that provided a locus for the formation of a distinctive African American culture in the South. Vlach has chosen more than 200 photographs and drawings from the Historic American Buildings Survey--an archive that has been mined many times for its images of the planters' residences but rarely for those of slave dwellings. In a dramatic photographic tour, Vlach leads readers through kitchens, smokehouses, dairies, barns and stables, and overseers' houses, finally reaching the slave quarters. To evoke a firsthand sense of what it was like to live and work in these spaces, he includes excerpts from the moving testimonies of former slaves drawn from the Federal Writers' Project collections.

Plantation life --- Slaves --- Space (Architecture) --- Vernacular architecture --- Architecture, Anonymous --- Architecture, Indigenous --- Architecture, Vernacular --- Folk architecture --- Indigenous architecture --- Traditional architecture --- Architecture and space --- Space and architectural mass --- Space in architecture --- Architecture --- City planning --- Enslaved persons --- Persons --- Slavery --- History --- Social conditions --- Composition, proportion, etc. --- Southern States --- Social conditions. --- 19th century --- Negative space (Architecture) --- Esclaves --- Espace (Architecture) --- Architecture vernaculaire --- Vie dans les plantations --- Conditions sociales --- Histoire --- États-Unis (Sud)