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Suggested Resources
 

Suggested Resources

Web Sites

Scientific American Frontiers
Information about the October 8, 2002 program titled Unearthing Secret America
Digital Archaeological Archive of Chesapeake Slavery (DAACS)
Major cooperative project to investigate slave life in the colonial period
Bartoy’s CG-10 Web Site at Berkeley
Kevin Bartoy’s web journal of 1999-2000 work

Other Chesapeake Web Sites Related to African-American Archaeology

Books, Theses, and Articles

The Archaeology of Colonial Virginia

Bowen, Joanne. Foodways in the 18th-Century Chesapeake. In The Archaeology of 18th-Century Virginia, edited by Theodore R. Reinhart, pp. 87-130. Spectrum Press, Richmond, 1996.

Deetz, James. Flowerdew Hundred: The Archaeology of a Virginia Plantation, 1619-1864. University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, 1993.

Kelso, William. Kingsmill Plantations, 1619–1800: Archaeology of Country Life in Colonial Virginia. Academic Press, Orlando, 1984

Neiman, Fraser D. Temporal Patterning in House Plans from the 17th-Century Chesapeake. In The Archaeology of 17th-Century Virginia, edited by Theodore R. Reinhart and Dennis J. Pogue, pp. 251-283. Dietz Press, Richmond, Virginia, 1993.

Reinhart, Theodore (editor). The Archaeology of 18th-Century Virginia, Spectrum Press, Richmond, 1996.

Reinhart, Theodore R. and Dennis J. Pogue (editors). The Archaeology of 17th-Century Virginia, Dietz Press, Richmond, Virginia, 1993.

Shackel Paul A, and Barbara J. Little (editors). Historical Archaeology of the Chesapeake. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C., 1994.

Martin’s Hundred

Edwards, Andrew C. Inequality in Early Virginia: A Case Study from Martin’s Hundred. Anthropology Masters Thesis, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1994.

Edwards, Andrew C. and Marley R. Brown III. Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake Settlement Patterns: A Current Perspective from Tidewater Virginia. In The Archaeology of 17th-Century Virginia, edited by Theodore R. Reinhart and Dennis J. Pogue, pp. 285-309. Dietz Press, Richmond, Virginia, 1993.

Muraca, David. Martin’s Hundred. A Settlement Study. Anthropology Masters Thesis, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1993.

Noël Hume, Ivor. Martin’s Hundred. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1982.

_____. Discoveries at Martin’s Hundred. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1983

Noël Hume, Ivor and Audrey Noël Hume. The Archaeology of Martin’s Hundred. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia 2001.

African-American Archaeology

Edwards-Ingram, Ywone. The Recent Archaeology of Enslaved Africans and African Americans. In Old and New Worlds, edited by Geoff Egan and R.L. Michael pp. 155-164, Oxbow, Oxford, 1999.

Ferguson, Leland. Uncommon Ground: Archaeology and Early African America, 1650-1800, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C., 1992

Franklin, Maria and Garrett Fesler (editors). Historical Archaeology, Identity Formation, and the Interpretation of Ethnicity. Colonial Williamsburg Research Publications, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1999.

Heath, Barbara J. Hidden Lives: The Archaeology of Slave Life at Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest. University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1999

Kelso, William M. Archaeology at Monticello: Artifacts of Everyday Life in the Plantation Community. Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, Monticello Monograph Series, 1997.

Orser, Charles E. (editor) Race and the Archaeology of Identity. The University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, 2001.

Samford, Patricia. The Archaeology of African-American Slavery and Material Culture. The William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Series, 53 (1) 1996:87-114.

Singleton, Theresa A. (editor) “I, Too, Am America”: Archaeological Studies of African-American Life. University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, 1999.

Architecture, History, and Material Culture

Carr, Lois Green, Philip D. Morgan, and Jean B. Russo (editors). Colonial Chesapeake Society. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1988.

Carson, Cary, Norma F. Barka, William M. Kelso, Garry W. Stone, and Dell Upton. Impermanent Architecture in the Southern American Colonies. Winterthur Portfolio, 1981, 16 (2/3):135-196.

Keeler, Robert W. The Homelot on the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake Tidewater Frontier. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Oregon, 1978. University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1986.

Kulikoff, Alan. Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures, 1680-1800. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1986.

Menard, Russell R. From Servants to Slaves: The Transformation of the Chesapeake Labor System. Southern Studies, 1977, (16): 355-390.

Morgan, Edmund. American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia. Norton, New York, 1975.

Morgan, Philip. Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1998.

St. George, Robert Blair (editor). Material Life in America 1600-1860. Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1988.

Sobel, Mechal. The World they made Together: Black and White Values in Eighteenth-Century Virginia. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1987.

Tate, Thad and David W. Ammerman (editors). The Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century. W.W. Norton, New York, 1979.

Walsh, Lorena. Slave Life, Slave Society, and Tobacco Production in the Tidewater Chesapeake, 1620-1820. In Cultivation and Culture: Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas, edited by Ira Berlin and Philip D. Morgan, pp. 170-1999. University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville 1993.

_____. From Calabar to Carter’s Grove. The History of a Virginia Slave Community. University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1997.

About the Colonial Williamsburg Archaeological Program and Sites

Public Education and Archaeology

Edwards, Ywone D. Archaeology and Public Education at Colonial Williamsburg. The Society for Historical Archaeology Newsletter. 1995, 28(2).

Edwards-Ingram, Ywone. Toward “True Acts of Inclusion”: The “Here” and the “Out There” Concepts in Public Archaeology. Historical Archaeology, 1997, 31(3): 27-35.

Samford, Patricia and David L. Ribblett. Archaeology for the Young Explorers: Uncovering History at Colonial Williamsburg. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1995

Theses and Site Reports

Agbe-Davies, Anna. Archaeological Excavation of a Small Cellar on Rich Neck Plantation. Colonial Williamsburg Archaeological Reports. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Department of Archaeological Research, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1999.

Atkins, Stephen. An Archaeological Perspective on the African-American Slave Diet at Mount Vernon’s House for Families. Anthropology Masters Thesis. The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1994.

Edwards, Ywone. Master-Slave Relations: A Williamsburg Perspective. Anthropology Masters Thesis, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1990.

Franklin, Maria. Out of Site, Out of Mind: The Archaeology of an Enslaved Virginian Household, ca. 1740-1778. Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, 1997.

Samford, Patricia. Archaeological Investigations at the Brush-Everard Site Williamsburg, Virginia. Colonial Williamsburg Research Publications, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1999.