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Author Vlach, John Michael, 1948-

Title By the work of their hands : studies in Afro-American folklife / by John Michael Vlach ; with a foreword by Lawrence Levine.

Publication Info. Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, [1991]
©1991

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 Moore Stacks  NK839.3.A35 V54 1991a    Available  ---
Description xviii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography 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.
Subject African American decorative arts.
African American decorative arts.
African Americans -- Material culture.
African Americans -- Material culture.
African Americans.
ISBN 0813913667 paper
0813913764 paper