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Title: Ancestors of Worthy Life
Condition: New
Subtitle: Plantation Slavery and Black Heritage at Mount Clare
Author: Teresa S. Moyer
Format: Hardback
EAN: 9780813060460
ISBN: 9780813060460
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Genre: History
Topic: Social Sciences, Society & Culture
Release Date: 30/12/2014
Description: Despite the contributions of enslaved African Americans to our country’s economy, culture, and history, records of their existence are all but expunged from plantation sites, which are reluctant to show and interpret the homes and lives of the enslaved. One such site is Mount Clare near Baltimore, Maryland, where Teresa Moyer’s work examines the lives of the plantation’s enslaved and investigates the issues keeping these findings from being publicly presented.

In this balanced discussion of racialized practice at historic site museums, Moyer presents a rich and contextualized study of the inextricably entangled lives of the enslaved, free blacks, and white landowners. She demonstrates that inclusive interpretation of plantation and other historic house museum sites can be done. Moyer argues that the inclusion of enslaved persons in the history of these sites would honor those “ancestors of worthy note,” make the social good of public history available to African Americans, and address systemic racism in America.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Weight: 440g
Book Series: Cultural Heritage Studies
Release Year: 2014

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