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Acknowledgments
Clifton Ellis (Editor), Rebecca Ginsburg (Editor)
Description: Cabin, Quarter, Plantation: Architecture and Landscapes of North American Slavery
Cabin, Quarter, Plantation: Architecture and Landscapes of North American Slavery
~To edit a volume is, in part, to create a community. We have indeed enjoyed and benefited from the warmth and wisdom held by the members of the community of Cabin, Quarter, Plantation. First, to the authors who wrote chapters especially for this book, thanks for believing in this project, for supporting it with your contributions, and for your...
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Clifton Ellis (Editor), Rebecca Ginsburg (Editor)
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Acknowledgments
To edit a volume is, in part, to create a community. We have indeed enjoyed and benefited from the warmth and wisdom held by the members of the community of Cabin, Quarter, Plantation. First, to the authors who wrote chapters especially for this book, thanks for believing in this project, for supporting it with your contributions, and for your patience.
We decided early on that we wished to involve the authors of the previously published articles in building this volume. One of the rewards for us of working on the book was getting to know them. Much thanks for allowing us to use your pieces and for answering all our questions about your writing and your work.
Other important members of the community include the peer reviewers. Now we know how much work good reading is! We were fortunate to have four critical, discerning, sometimes grumpy, but always strongly supportive readers push the project forward. This volume has improved greatly under their care and guidance, and we are immensely grateful for their suggestions and comments.
Our editor at Yale, Michelle Komie, and her colleagues also deserve thanks. It’s been a pleasure to work with her and others at Yale, especially Laura Jones Dooley, our manuscript editor.
We could not have produced this volume without the assistance of four graduate students who redrew plans, coordinated typists, proofread manuscripts, liaised with the Press, and performed countless other tasks. Thank you to Stephen Montalvo from Texas Tech University, and Shaney Gomez, Douglas Williams, and Sarah Frohardt-Lane from the University of Illinois.
Last but far from least, we wish to acknowledge each other. At the risk of allowing these acknowledgments to collapse into sentimentality, Rebecca affirms that it has been an honor and privilege to work on this book with Clifton, and that the years of collaboration have increased her admiration, regard, and affection for him as a person, a scholar, and an editor. Clifton is grateful to Rebecca for setting the tone for this endeavor. Rebecca’s calm, patient approach to every aspect of this project has kept us all steady and in good spirits. She is an excellent scholar and a dear friend.
Steeping ourselves in literature about slavery has not always been easy. This is a painful history. Sometimes it has been necessary to put an excellent piece of writing down on the desk and walk away from it for a while to digest the pain and sorrow. Our ultimate response to slavery, to its past and to its continuing echoes in the sites and systems around us, has been to produce this volume. We hope that it will help other teachers, scholars, and students to think through the profound effects of slavery on the world both past and present.
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