Cabin, Quarter, Plantation Architecture and Landscapes of North American Slavery Clifton Ellis, Rebecca Ginsburg

Visitors to such historic homes as the Hermitage and Monticello today can study the remains of places where slaves once lived and worked and, in some cases, can view historically reconstructed cabins, garden plots, and settlements. New archaeological and historical scholarship can tell us much about the built environments of slavery and the daily lives of slaves in North America. The first book to treat the architecture of American slavery, this important work brings together the best writing in the field, including classic pieces on slave landscapes by W. E. B. DuBois and Dell Upton alongside new essays on such topics as the building methods that Africans brought to the American South; information about slave family units and spiritual practices that can be gathered from archaeological remains; and the differences in the daily lives of rural and urban slaves. The starting point in any study of the impact of the conditions of enslavement, this anthology makes an essential contribution to the fields of African-American history and architectural history.

Rebecca Ginsburg is assistant professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign. Clifton Ellis is assistant professor in architectural history at Texas Tech University.

""Cabin Quarter, Plantation: Architecture and Landscapes of North American Slavery "provides important perspectives on the social and political history of the continent."--Emmanuel Dabney, "Register of the Kentucky Historical Society"--Emmanuel Dabney "Register of the Kentucky Historical Society "