Hearth & home, preserving a people's culture / George W. McDaniel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McDaniel, George W.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

American civilization

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historic buildings--Maryland.

Historic buildings.

Rural conditions.

African Americans--Housing.

Farmhouses.

Maryland.

Farmhouses--Maryland.

African Americans--Housing--Maryland.

African Americans.

Maryland--Rural conditions.

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, xxiv, 297 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, plans ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Hearth and Home

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1982.

Contents:

Introduction: The Farm Tenant House at the Smithsonian Institution: "You've Got It Backwards"

Exploring the Origins of Maryland Slave Houses: "Every Man a Sufficient Architect for the Purpose"

Slave Houses: "My Lord, My Lord, This is it! This is It!"

Making Do: "They Didn't Have Much, But They Made do, Yes, Indeed"

Houses of the Landless: "On Canaan's Bright Shore"

Houses of Landowners: "The Colored People Want Land"

Epilogue: Celebrating the People's History: "From Somebody Who Wore the Shoe".

Notes:

"Published 1982."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-291) and index.

1982 National Trust Honor Award. National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

0877222339 :

087722367X

OCLC:

187320070