Remarkablly, motherhood is a subject that has largely been ignored by archaeologists who focus on gender and history - until now. Using archaeological materials recovered from a housesite in Mobile, Alabama, Laurie Wilkie explopes how one extended African-amreican family engaged with competing and conflicting mothering ideologies in the post ...
The enslaved population of Clifton Plantation was an early 19th-century cultural melange including native Africans, island-born Creoles, and African-American slaves brought by the owners from the American South as part of the Loyalist resettlement. This study of the multi-ethnic African community explores the diverse ways that members of this ...
Historians' conception of plantation life in the American South, both post- and antebellum, derives almost exclusively from the written record, hence mainly from the white owners' perspectives. In Creating Freedom, historical archaeologist Laurie Wilkie pulls the half-opened curtain wider by seeking out the experiences of the majority of people ...
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