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Below Baltimore

An Archaeology of Charm City

By: Adam D. Fracchia,Patricia M. Samford

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An Archaeology of Charm City

By: Adam D. Fracchia,Patricia M. Samford

The first synthesis of the archaeological heritage of Baltimore Below Baltimore provides the first detailed overview of the rich archaeological heritage of the people and city of Baltimore. Drawing on a combined five decades of experience in the Chesapeake region and compiling 70 years of published and unpublished records, Adam Fracchia and Patricia Samford explore the layers of the city’s material record from the late seventeenth century to the recent past. Fracchia and Samford focus on major themes and movements such as Baltimore’s growth into a mercantile port city, the city’s diverse immigrant populations and the history of their foodways, and the ways industries—including railroads, glass factories, sugar refineries, and breweries—structured the city’s landscape. Using insights from artifacts and the built environment, they detail individual lives and experiences within different historical periods and show how the city has changed over time. Synthesizing a large amount of information that has never before been gathered in one place, Below Baltimore demonstrates how urban archaeology can approach cities as larger collective artifacts of the past, where excavations can uncover patterns of inequality in urbanization and industrialization that connect to social and economic processes still at work today.

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University Press of Florida

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0813070449

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Subfloor Pits and the Archaeology of Slavery in Colonial Virginia

By: Patricia Samford

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Subfloor Pits and the Archaeology of Slavery in Colonial Virginia

By: Patricia Samford

This book discusses the daily life and culture of enslaved Africans and their descendants. Enslaved Africans and their descendants comprised a significant portion of colonial Virginia populations, with most living on rural slave quarters adjacent to the agricultural fields in which they labored. Archaeological excavations into these home sites have provided unique windows into the daily lifeways and culture of these early inhabitants. subfloor pits be-neath the houses. The most common explanations of the functions of these pits are as storage places for personal belongings or root vegetables, and some contextual and ethnohistoric data suggest they may have served as West African-style shrines. Through analysis of 103 subfloor pits dating from the 17th through mid-19th centuries, Samford reveals how data on shape, location, surface area, and depth, as well as contextual analysis of artifact assemblages, can show how subfloor pits functioned for the enslaved. Archaeology reveals the material circumstances of slaves' lives, which in turn opens the door to illuminating other aspects of life: spirituality, symbolic meanings assigned to material goods, social life, individual and group agency, and acts of resistance and accommodation. about how West African, possibly Igbo, cultural traditions were maintained and transformed in the Virginia Chesapeake.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817354549

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Below Baltimore

An Archaeology of Charm City

By: Adam D. Fracchia,Patricia M. Samford

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An Archaeology of Charm City

By: Adam D. Fracchia,Patricia M. Samford

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University Press of Florida

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0813070449

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9780813070445

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Below Baltimore

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Subfloor Pits and the Archaeology of Slavery in Colonial Virginia

Subfloor Pits and the Archaeology of Slavery in Colonial Virginia

Below Baltimore

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