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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Exploring and Contextualizing Historic African American Life in a Cultural Borderland, 1690s to 1950s
Michael J. Gall and Richard F. Veit
Part I Slavery and Material Culture
1. Identifying an Eighteenth-Century Slave Quarter Complex at the Cedar Creek Road Site in Southern Delaware
William B. Liebeknecht
2. Colonoware in the Upper Mid-Atlantic and Northeast
Keri J. Sansevere
3. An Archaeological View of Slavery and Social Relations at Rock Hall, Lawrence, New York
Ross Thomas Rava and Christopher N. Matthews
Part II Housing, Community, and Labor
4. Navigation and Negotiation: Adaptive Strategies of a Free African American Family in Central Delaware
Michael J. Gall, Glenn R. Modica, and Tabitha C. Hilliard
5. The Material Culture of Tenancy: Excavations at an African American Tenant Farm, Christiana, Pennsylvania
James A. Delle
6. Mapping Marshalltown: Documentary Archaeology of a Southern New Jersey Landscape of Emancipation
Janet L. Sheridan
7. Tenants on the Woodlot: The Bird-Houston Site, St. Georges Hundred, Delaware
Jason P. Shellenhamer and John Bedell
8. The Relationships of Race, Class, and Food in the African American Community of Timbuctoo, New Jersey
Christopher Barton
Part III Death and Memorialization
9. “Born a Slave, Died Free:” Antebellum African American Gravemarkers in Northern New Jersey
Richard F. Veit and Mark Nonestied
10. Above the Valley and Below the Radar: Mount Gilead African Methodist Episcopal Church and Its Community
Meagan M. Ratini
11. An African American Union Soldier Remembered: James Elbert and the African Union Church Cemetery in Polktown, Delaware
David Orr
Part IV Reflections
12. Reflections on Dynamic African American Social Cultures and Communities in the Upper Mid-Atlantic, 1610s to 1950s
Christopher C. Fennell
13. African American Cultures and Place in the Greater Delaware Valley Borderland, 1620s to 1920s
Lu Ann De Cunzo
References Cited
Contributors
Index