Description: Behind the "Big Houses" of the antebellum South existed a different world, socially and architecturally, where slaves lived and worked. John Michael Vlach explores the structures and spaces that formed the slaves' environment. Through photographs and the words of former slaves, he portrays the plantation landscape from the slaves' own point of view.The plantation landscape was chiefly the creation of slaveholders, but Vlach argues convincingly that slaves imbued this landscape with their own meanings. Their subtle acts of appropriation constituted one of the more effective strategies of slave resistance and one that provided a locus for the formation of a distinctive African American culture in the South.Vlach has chosen more than 200 photographs and drawings from the Historic American Buildings Survey--an archive that has been mined many times for its images of the planters' residences but …condition info: Has a sturdy binding with some shelf wear. May have light markings on pages.
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EAN: 9780807844120
Book Title: Back of the Big House : the Architecture of Plantation Slavery
Number of Pages: 278 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Topic: Sociology / General, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), General, United States / General, History / General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 1993
Features: New Edition
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Architecture, Social Science, History
Item Weight: 12 Oz
Item Length: 11 in
Author: John Michael Vlach
Item Width: 8.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
