Reordering the Landscape of Wye House - Nature, Spirituality, and Social Order

This book examines early European American and African American gardening practices, social order, and material culture at the Wye House plantation. Located on the eastern shore of Maryland, this plantation housed the Welsh Lloyd family and hundreds of enslaved Africans and African Americans, including Frederick Douglass.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: The Historical Landscape
Chapter 2: The Lloyds' Landscape
Chapter 3: The Reordered Landscape
Chapter 4: The Present Landscape
Conclusions

About the author

Elizabeth Pruitt is manager of education and outreach at the Society for American Archaeology.

Summary

This book examines early European American and African American gardening practices, social order, and material culture at the Wye House plantation. Located on the eastern shore of Maryland, this plantation housed the Welsh Lloyd family and hundreds of enslaved Africans and African Americans, including Frederick Douglass.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Pruitt
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2017
• EAN: 9781498528238
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-2823-8
• No. of pages: 158
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Archaeology, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, The Americas, c 1765 to 1783 (American Revolutionary period), c 1783 to c 1800 (American Federalist era)