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.

Sommario

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

Info autore

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

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Elizabeth Pruitt
• Editore: Lexington Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.04.2017
• EAN: 9781498528238
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-2823-8
• Pagine: 158
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Preistoria e protostoria, mondo antico; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze sociali, tematiche generali; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Preistoria e protostoria; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Archaeology, History of the Americas