I forwarded the question on plantation slavery to the HISTARCH list and
here is a reply.
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From: Tom Wheaton <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Plantation slavery
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Several names come to mind about interpreting plantation sites (and none are
from Williamsburg):
Dorothy Spruill Redford
Somerset Place Historic Site
Route 1, Box 337
Creswell NC 27928
919 797 4560
Carol McDavid
1406 Sul Ross
Houston, TX 77006
713 639 7368
Kenneth Brown
University of Houston
Department of Anthropology
Houston, TX 77204-5882
Barbara Heath
Jefferson's Poplar Forest
P.O. Box 419
Forest, VA
804 525 1806
Esther White
5534 Burgundy Place
Alexandria, VA 22303
703 780 2000
Dennis Poque
3168 Arrowhead Court
Woodridge, VA 22192
703 491 7131
Dorothy Redford has perhaps the most innovative interpetation project in the
country. She attempts to give a truer feeling of what it may have been like
to be a slave than nice neat tabby ruins are capable.
Carol McDavid presented a paper on this subject at the last SHA and is
wrestling these sorts of problems in Texas, and especially how to involve the
local African-American community.
Ken Brown is the guy who did the Levy-Jordan plantation, the most incredible
plantation site in the U.S.
Barbara Heath is with Jefferson's Poplar Forest and Monticello and is an
expert on slave made ceramics in the Caribbean. I believe she took over from
Bill Kelso, who is now in Richmond at the state museum, I think.
Dennis Poque and Esther White are the archaeologists at Mount Vernon. Five
or ten years ago you would not have held up MT. Vernon as a great example of
how to interprete a plantation, but since Dennis and Esther got there, things
have changed. They use a lot of volunteer and student input to help
interprete the site to millions (?) of tourists annually.
While I am at it, I would like to make a plug for the African-American
Archaeology Newsletter (which all of these fine folks subscribe to). If you
would like to subscribe, please send a check for $5.00 made out to AAA
Newsletter to:
Tom Wheaton, Editor
AAA Newsletter
6150 East Ponce de Leon
Stone Mountain, GA 300083
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