TY - BOOK ID - 77918723 TI - Speaking for the enslaved AU - Jackson, Antoinette T AU - Shackel, Paul A PY - 2012 SN - 1315419963 1315419971 1598745506 9781598745504 1611326184 9781611326185 1598745484 1598745492 9781598745481 9781598745498 9781315419978 9781315419947 9781315419954 1315419955 PB - Walnut Creek Left Coast Press DB - UniCat KW - Historic sites KW - Plantations KW - African Americans KW - Plantation life KW - Community life KW - Material culture KW - Public history KW - Memory KW - Retention (Psychology) KW - Intellect KW - Psychology KW - Thought and thinking KW - Comprehension KW - Executive functions (Neuropsychology) KW - Mnemonics KW - Perseveration (Psychology) KW - Reproduction (Psychology) KW - Applied history KW - History KW - Culture KW - Folklore KW - Technology KW - Associations, institutions, etc. KW - Human ecology KW - Afro-Americans KW - Black Americans KW - Colored people (United States) KW - Negroes KW - Africans KW - Ethnology KW - Blacks KW - Farms KW - Heritage places, Historic KW - Heritage sites, Historic KW - Historic heritage places KW - Historic heritage sites KW - Historic places KW - Historical sites KW - Places, Historic KW - Sites, Historic KW - Archaeology KW - Historic buildings KW - Monuments KW - World Heritage areas KW - Interpretive programs KW - Social life and customs. KW - History. KW - Social aspects KW - Southern States KW - American South KW - American Southeast KW - Dixie (U.S. : Region) KW - Former Confederate States KW - South, The KW - Southeast (U.S.) KW - Southeast United States KW - Southeastern States KW - Southern United States KW - United States, Southern KW - Antiquities. KW - Cultural policy. KW - Black people UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77918723 AB - Focusing on the agency of enslaved Africans and their descendants in the South, this work argues for the systematic unveiling and recovery of subjugated knowledge, histories, and cultural practices of those traditionally silenced and overlooked by national heritage projects and national public memories. Jackson uses both ethnographic and ethnohistorical data to show the various ways African Americans actively created and maintained their own heritage and cultural formations. Viewed through the lens of four distinctive plantation sites-including the one on which that the ancestors of First ER -