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1 online resource (179 pages). |
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Heritage, tourism, and community
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Heritage, tourism, and community.
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| Contents |
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: A World Class Ecosystem--Made in America by Africans in America; Chapter 5: "Tell Them We Were Never Sharecroppers" : The Snee Farm Plantation Community and the Charles Pinckney National Historic Site. |
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Chapter 6: The Kingsley Plantation Community: A Multiracial and Multinational Profile of American HeritageChapter 7: Conclusion. |
| Summary |
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 Americans actively created and maintained their own heritage and cultural formations. Viewed through the lens of four distinctive plantation sites--including the one on which that the ancestors of First Lady. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Historic sites -- Interpretive programs -- Southern States.
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Historic sites -- Interpretive programs. |
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Southern States. |
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Plantations -- Southern States.
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Plantations. |
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African Americans -- Southern States -- Social life and customs.
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African Americans. |
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Manners and customs. |
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Plantation life -- Southern States -- History.
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Plantation life. |
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History. |
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Community life -- Southern States -- History.
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Community life. |
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Material culture -- Southern States -- History.
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Material culture. |
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Southern States -- Antiquities.
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Antiquities. |
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Public history -- Social aspects -- Southern States.
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Public history. |
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Social aspects. |
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Memory -- Social aspects -- Southern States.
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Memory -- Social aspects. |
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Memory. |
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Southern States -- Cultural policy.
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Cultural policy. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Shackel, Paul A.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jackson, Antoinette T. Speaking for the Enslaved : Heritage Interpretation at Antebellum Plantation Sites. Walnut Creek : Left Coast Press, ©2012 9781598745481 |
| ISBN |
9781598745504 (electronic book) |
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1598745506 (electronic book) |
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1611326184 (consumer ebook) |
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9781611326185 (consumer ebook) |
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1598745506 |
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1598745484 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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1598745492 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9781598745481 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9781598745498 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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