Description: This Is Our Home by Whitney Nell Stewart Insightfully reading the built environment of plantations, considering artifact fragments found in excavations of slave dwellings, and drawing on legal records and plantation owners papers, Whitney Nell Stewart illuminates how enslaved people struggled to make home amid innumerable constraints and obstacles imposed by white southerners. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The cultural memory of plantations in the Old South has long been clouded by myth. A recent reckoning with the centrality of slavery to the US national story, however, has shifted the meaning of these sites. Plantations are no longer simply seen as places of beauty and grandiose hospitality; their reality as spaces of enslavement, exploitation, and violence is increasingly at the forefront of our scholarly and public narratives. Yet even this reckoning obscures what these sites meant to so many forced to live and labor on them: plantations were Black homes as much as white.Insightfully reading the built environment of plantations, considering artifact fragments found in excavations of slave dwellings, and drawing on legal records and plantation owners papers, Whitney Nell Stewart illuminates how enslaved people struggled to make home amid innumerable constraints and obstacles imposed by white southerners. By exploring the material remnants of the past, Stewart demonstrates how homemaking was a crucial part of the battle over slavery and freedom, a fight that continues today in consequential confrontations over who has the right to call this nation home. Author Biography Whitney Nell Stewart is assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at Dallas. Review This is Our Home is wonderfully written and richly illustrated with numerous images showing the places it explores and the material culture items it discusses. Stewarts interdisciplinary approach to studying the liberating sense of home among the enslaved makes for compelling reading."—Emerging Civil War Details ISBN1469675676 Author Whitney Nell Stewart Year 2023 ISBN-13 9781469675671 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2023-11-14 Subtitle Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2023-11-14 NZ Release Date 2023-11-14 US Release Date 2023-11-14 UK Release Date 2023-11-14 Publisher The University of North Carolina Press Imprint The University of North Carolina Press Place of Publication Chapel Hill Audience Professional & Vocational Pages 296 DEWEY 306.3620975 Illustrations 40 photos, 1 map ISBN-10 1469675676 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159088838;
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