Slavery in the City: Architecture and Landscapes of Urban Slavery in North America

Author:   Rebecca Ginsburg ,  Clifton Ellis
Publisher:   University of Virginia Press
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9780813940052


Pages:   160
Publication Date:   30 July 2017
Format:   Hardback
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Slavery in the City: Architecture and Landscapes of Urban Slavery in North America


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Author:   Rebecca Ginsburg ,  Clifton Ellis
Publisher:   University of Virginia Press
Imprint:   University of Virginia Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.428kg
ISBN:  

9780813940052


ISBN 10:   0813940052
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   30 July 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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“This is a timely collection that will redefine slavery as most Americans understand the term.” —Robert Blair st. george, University of Pennsylvania


The essays in this volume are universally engaging, and each represents an excellent treatment of a particular time and place. Together they comprise a wide and varied group of case studies of urban slavery.</p>--Emma Hart, University of St. Andrews, author of <i>Building Charleston: Town and Society in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World</i>


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Rebecca Ginsburg, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Director of the Education Justice Project, is the author of At Home with Apartheid: The Hidden Landscapes of Domestic Service in Johannesburg (Virginia). Clifton Ellis is Associate Dean for Research and Associate Professor of Architecture at Texas Tech University. They are coeditors of Cabin, Quarter, Plantation: Architecture and Landscapes of North American Slavery

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