Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-235) and index.
Contents
Arrival and survival -- Afro-American domestic artifacts in Eighteenth-Century Virginia -- Black craft traditions in Texas -- From gravestone to miracle : traditional perspective and the work of William Edmondson -- Philip Simmons -- "Us quarters fixed fine" : finding black builders in southern history -- Shotgun house -- Afro-American housing in Virginia's landscape of slavery.