1st Edition

Speaking for the Enslaved Heritage Interpretation at Antebellum Plantation Sites

By Antoinette T Jackson Copyright 2012
178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

Focusing on the agency of enslaved Africans and their descendants in the South, this work argues for the systematic unveiling and recovery of subjugated knowledge, histories, and cultural practices of those traditionally silenced and overlooked by national heritage projects and national public memories. Jackson uses both ethnographic and ethnohistorical data to show the various ways African... Read more
Chapter 1 History, Heritage, Memory, Place; Chapter 2 Issues in Cultural Heritage Tourism, Management, and Preservation; Chapter 3 Roots, Routes, and Representation—Friendfield Plantation and Michelle Obama’s Very American Story; Chapter 4 Jehossee Island Rice Plantation; Chapter 5 “Tell Them We Were Never Sharecroppers”; Chapter 6 The Kingsley Plantation Community; Chapter 7 Conclusion;

Biography

Antoinette T Jackson