Speaking for the enslaved : heritage interpretation at antebellum plantation sites / Antoinette T. Jackson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Antoinette T.

Series:

Heritage, Tourism & Community

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.

Community life--Southern States--History.

Community life.

Material culture--Southern States--History.

Material culture.

Public history--Social aspects--Southern States.

Public history.

Memory--Social aspects--Southern States.

Memory.

Southern States--Antiquities.

Southern States.

Southern States--Cultural policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (179 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Focusing on the agency of enslaved Africans and their descendants in the South, this work argues for the systematic unveiling and recovery of subjugated knowledge, histories, and cultural practices of those traditionally silenced and overlooked by national heritage projects and national public memories. Jackson uses both ethnographic and ethnohistorical data to show the various ways African Americans actively created and maintained their own heritage and cultural formations. Viewed through the lens of four distinctive plantation sites-including the one on which that the ancestors of First

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations and Tables; Foreword - Paul A. Shackel; Preface; Chapter 1: History, Heritage, Memory, Place; Chapter 2: Issues in Cultural Heritage Tourism, Management, and Preservation; Chapter 3: Roots, Routes, and Representation: Friendfield Plantation and Michelle Obama's Very American Story; Chapter 4: Jehossee Island Rice Plantation: A World Class Ecosystem-Made in America by Africans in America; Chapter 5: "Tell Them We Were Never Sharecroppers" : The Snee Farm Plantation Community and the Charles Pinckney National Historic Site

Chapter 6: The Kingsley Plantation Community: A Multiracial and Multinational Profile of American HeritageChapter 7: Conclusion; Notes; References; Index; About the Author

Notes:

First published 2012 by Left Coast Press, Inc.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-315-41995-5

1-315-41996-3

1-315-41997-1

1-59874-550-6

9781315419978

OCLC:

804661327