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Speaking for the enslaved : heritage interpretation at antebellum plantation sites / Antoinette T. Jackson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jackson, Antoinette T.
- Series:
- Heritage, tourism, and community
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historic sites--Interpretive programs--Southern States.
- Historic sites.
- Plantations--Southern States.
- Plantations.
- African Americans--Southern States--Social life and customs.
- African Americans.
- Plantation life--Southern States--History.
- Plantation life.
- Cultural policy.
- Memory--Social aspects.
- Memory.
- Public history.
- Social aspects.
- Material culture.
- History.
- Community life.
- Manners and customs.
- Historic sites--Interpretive programs.
- Southern States.
- Community life--Southern States--History.
- Material culture--Southern States--History.
- Southern States--Antiquities.
- Antiquities.
- Public history--Social aspects--Southern States.
- Memory--Social aspects--Southern States.
- Southern States--Cultural policy.
- Physical Description:
- 178 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, [2012]
- Summary:
- Jackson (anthropology, University of South Florida) links the past with the present through the voices of the descendants of enslaved Africans collected from oral histories, in this ethnographic and ethnohistorical study of the representation of enslaved Africans at public historic sites in National Heritage Areas. The study focuses on four antebellum plantation sites, including the Friendfield rice plantation in Georgetown, South Carolina, where the ancestors of First Lady Michelle Obama were enslaved. Jackson begins the book by introducing issues of identity, representation, and heritage tourism, looking at tensions among stakeholders such as heritage as preservation versus heritage as a product for consumption. She proposes that descendant knowledge be included as part of the heritage tourism and preservation process in order to represent enslaved Africans not just as field hands but as family and community members, engineers, midwives, teachers, and artisans. The book includes b&w contemporary photos of sites. The author is a member of the Gullah/Geechee National Heritage Corridor Commission. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- History, Heritage, Memory, Place
- Issues in Cultural/Heritage Tourism, Management, and Preservation
- Roots, Routes and Representation : Friendfield Plantation and Michelle Obama's Very American Story
- Jehossee Island Rice Plantation : a World Class Ecosystem : Made in America by Africans in America
- "Tell Them We Were Never Sharecroppers" : The Snee Farm Plantation Community and the Charles Pinckney National Historic Site
- The Kingsley Plantation Community : A multiracial and multi-national view of heritage in America.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1598745492
- 9781598745481
- 1598745484
- 9781598745498
- 9781598745504
- 1598745506
- 9781611326185
- 1611326184
- OCLC:
- 764364133
- Publisher Number:
- 99949588566
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