Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery Paperback - 1993
by John Michael Vlach
Behind the "big houses" of the antebellum South existed an entirely different world, socially and architecturally, where slaves lived and worked. Vlach has chosen over 200 photographs and drawings from the Historic American Buildings Survey of the 1930s--an archive that has been mined many times for its images of the planters' residences but almost never for those of slave dwellings.
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Exploring the structures and spaces used by slaves on antebellum plantations, Vlach shows how slaves subtly appropriated this landscape as their own. These newly claimed spaces fostered a feeling of community that served as a seedbed for further resistance and for the invention and maintenance of a distinctive African American culture. 206 illustrations. A New York Times Notable Book.
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- Title Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery
- Author John Michael Vlach
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 278
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.
- Date 1993-05-28
- ISBN 9780807844120 / 0807844128
- Weight 1.75 lbs (0.79 kg)
- Dimensions 11.12 x 8.54 x 0.82 in (28.24 x 21.69 x 2.08 cm)
- Reading level 1550
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects Southern States - Social conditions, Plantation life - Southern States - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 92034579
- Dewey Decimal Code 975.004
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- School Library Journal, 11/01/1993, Page 152
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