A Chesapeake Family and Their Slaves: A Study in Historical Archaeology.

Abstract

Foreword Acknowledgements Permissions Preface Part I. Starting Points: Region, Town and Site: 1. Transforming space into place 2. Beginning the research Part II. Ruling the Province: 3. On behalf of his lordship 4. Governor Benedict Leonard Calvert Part II. Big Features and Topological Dimensions: 5. 'A house well built and with much strength' 6. Ordering nature: the Calvert orangery, garden and vista Part IV. Mosaics Built From Little Artifacts: 7. Touches of Chinese elegance: pottery and porcelain 8. Social distinctions in daily food Part V. Building Black Identities 9. The face of urban slavery 10. West African women, food and cultural values Part VI. Artifacts In Motion: 11. Putting meat on the bones 12. Hunting, fishing, and market trading Part VII. Time Markers and Social History: 13. Generations of change 14. Charisma and the symbolics of power Part VIII. The Vitality Of Cultural Context: 15. Archaeology as anthropological history 16. Archaeology, a topical discourse Bibliography Endnotes Appendix.