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Building for “Our Family, Black and White”: The Changing Form of the Slave House in Antebellum Virginia
Clifton Ellis
Description: Cabin, Quarter, Plantation: Architecture and Landscapes of North American Slavery
Cabin, Quarter, Plantation: Architecture and Landscapes of North American Slavery
The close and careful fieldwork that distinguishes committed vernacularists such as Clifton Ellis from “armchair investigations” of architecture is evident in this essay, which is based on extensive fieldwork in Halifax County, Virginia, combined with the rich resources of the Bruce Family Papers, held at the University of Virginia Special Collections Library. Vernacularists...
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Clifton Ellis
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2010 by Yale University
Related print edition pages: pp.141-155
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00291.8
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22217
Chapter subject tags:Slaves--DwellingsPlantationsArchitecture--Southern StatesBruce, James C. (James Coles), 1806-1865Berry Hill Plantation (Va.)

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Building for “Our Family, Black and White”: The Changing Form of the Slave House in Antebellum Virginia