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Location of Utopia Quarter, Williamsburg, Virginia

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Description: Location of Utopia Quarter, Williamsburg, Virginia
TitleLocation of Utopia Quarter, Williamsburg, Virginia
Creator name (description)Diagram created by Garrett Fesler (2008)
Creator roleMapmaker
Object typeMap/Plan/Diagram
SubjectsSlaves--DwellingsExcavations (Archaeology)
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Excavating the Spaces and Interpreting the Places of Enslaved Africans and Their Descendants
Garrett Fesler
Description: Cabin, Quarter, Plantation: Architecture and Landscapes of North American Slavery
Cabin, Quarter, Plantation: Architecture and Landscapes of North American Slavery
Garrett Fesler’s essay is in part an explanatory summary of archaeologists’ work at sites of slavery. As Fesler notes, it was archaeologists who discovered evidence that enslaved Africans preserved traditional customs and knowledge, a discovery that confirmed assertions of slave agency, but also one that opened a new dialogue about life under slavery. As the title of the essay...
Author
Garrett Fesler
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2010 by Yale University
Related print edition pages: pp.27-49
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00291.3
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22212&redirecttoanchor=75056
Chapter subject tags:Slaves--DwellingsExcavations (Archaeology)Domestic spaceAfrican diasporaPlantationsArchitecture--Southern States

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https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/digital-collection/01.%20Paintings/38118
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Creator rolePainter
Creation date1849
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http://collections.chateauversailles.fr/#da0cd85e-46f0-465d-a4ce-23df3e36b64e
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https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O79580/medallion-hackwood-william/
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Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer
Creation date1797-1854
Object typePrint
MaterialsEtching
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https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3353203&partId=1&searchText=cugoano&page=1
Accession number1852,0214.115
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Creator name (description)Diagram created by Garrett Fesler (2004)
Creator roleMapmaker
Object typeMap/Plan/Diagram
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Creator roleMapmaker
Object typeMap/Plan/Diagram
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Object typeMap/Plan/Diagram
MaterialsN/A
DimensionsN/A
LocationN/A
N/A
Accession numberN/A
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Creator name (description)Diagram created by Garrett Fesler (2007)
Creator roleMapmaker
Object typeMap/Plan/Diagram
Occupations areas at Utopia quarter,...
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Object typeMap/Plan/Diagram
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Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator rolePainter
Creation datec. 1730–1736
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
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https://www.mfa.org/collections/object/the-escaped-bird-32743
Accession number40.478
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Creation date1726–1728
Object typePrint
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Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1849
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
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http://collections.chateauversailles.fr/#09428b4b-a2fa-4f6a-bfa3-d9e3992cacdf
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Object typeMap/Plan/Diagram
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Slave quarters, Queen's Quarter, Castle...
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Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer
Creation date1748
Object typePrint
MaterialsEtching
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Head of the eunuchs
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Creator name (description)Photograph by Dell Upton
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Object typeArchitecture
Mount Airy plantation, Richmond County,...
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Posted by:John Carlson
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LocationKayenta region, northern Arizona
N/A
Accession numberN/A
Betatakin, a prehistoric Pueblo cliff...
Betatakin, a prehistoric Pueblo cliff dwelling
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Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer
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Object typePrint
MaterialsEngraving
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LocationYale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:4515229
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Creator name (description)Signed
Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1733
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
Dimensions109 x 104.5 cm
LocationWallace Collection, London
Accession numberP456
Mademoiselle de Clermont at Her Bath
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Object typePhotograph
Archaeologists on summit of Mount...
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Posted by:John Carlson
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Creator roleArtist
Object typeMap/Plan/Diagram
MaterialsN/A
DimensionsN/A
LocationN/A
N/A
Accession numberN/A
Viracochapampa, general plan c....
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