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Free African-American Archeology: Interpreting An Antebellum Farmstead, Robin Leigh Ryder
Free African-American Archeology: Interpreting An Antebellum Farmstead, Robin Leigh Ryder
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Stretching The Chains: Runaway Slaves In South Carolina And Jamaica, Jan Mark Williams
Stretching The Chains: Runaway Slaves In South Carolina And Jamaica, Jan Mark Williams
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Womanpower In The Civil Rights Movement, Yvette Hutchinson
Womanpower In The Civil Rights Movement, Yvette Hutchinson
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The Architecture Of Slavery: Art, Language, And Society In Early Virginia, Alexander Ormond Boulton
The Architecture Of Slavery: Art, Language, And Society In Early Virginia, Alexander Ormond Boulton
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Inspired by the concept of culture as expressed in the work of Claude Levi-Strauss, this dissertation traces the roots of modern perceptions of slavery and race by analyzing three sites each of which is associated with a distinct cultural pattern and social ideology. The first, Penshurst in Kent England is described as feudal, organic, vernacular, and popular. The second, Westover in tidewater Virginia is classical, rational, and elite. Thomas Jefferson's Monticello in the Virginia piedmont, the third site, is described as romantic, liberal, and bourgeois. It is only at this third site, the locus for a distinctly modern family type, …