Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Ferguson, Leland |
| Publisher: | Smithsonian Books |
| Date: | 9/17/2004 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Winner of the Southern Anthropological Society’s prestigious James Mooney Award, Uncommon Ground takes a unique archaeological approach to examining early African American life. Ferguson shows how black pioneers worked within the bars of bondage to shape their distinct identity and lay a rich foundation for the multicultural adjustments that became colonial pre-Revolutionary period artifacts gathered from plantations and urban slave communities, Ferguson integrates folklore, history, and research to reveal how these enslaved people actually lived. Impeccably researched and beautifully written.
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