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Plan for a hall and chamber type called a Virginia House

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Description: Plan for a hall and chamber type called a Virginia House

TitlePlan for a hall and chamber type called a Virginia House

Creator roleMapmaker

Creation datec. 1780

Object typeMap/Plan/Diagram

LocationFrom James Hunt account book, Halifax County, Virginia

SubjectsSlaves--DwellingsPlantations

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

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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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&redirecttoanchor=75080

Chapter subject tags:Slaves--DwellingsPlantationsArchitecture--Southern StatesBruce, James C. (James Coles), 1806-1865Berry Hill Plantation (Va.)

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