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Back of the big house : the architecture of plantation slavery / John Michael Vlach.

Summary:

Interviews with former slaves and photographs and architectural drawings present an idea of the role Blacks played in the antebellum South.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0807820857
  • ISBN: 0807844128
  • ISBN: 9780807820858
  • ISBN: 9780807844120
  • Physical Description: xviii, 258 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
  • Publisher: Chapel Hill, NC : The University of North Carolina Press, [1993].

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-250) and index.
Target Audience Note:
1550L Lexile
Subject:
Enslaved persons > Southern States > Social conditions.
Plantation life > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Space (Architecture) > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Vernacular architecture > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Southern States > Social conditions.

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  • 20 of 22 copies available at NC Cardinal.
  • 0 of 0 copies available at McDowell County Public Library.

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