This Is Our Home - 9781469675671

This Is Our HomeSlavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations\nAuthor(s): Whitney Nell Stewart\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of North Carolina Press, United States\nImprint: The University of North Carolina Press\nISBN-13: 9781469675671, 978-1469675671\nSynopsis\nThe cultural memory of plantations in the Old South has long been clouded by myth. A recent reckoning with the centrality of slavery to the US national story, however, has shifted the meaning of these sites. Plantations are no longer simply seen as places of beauty and grandiose hospitality; their reality as spaces of enslavement, exploitation, and violence is increasingly at the forefront of our scholarly and public narratives. Yet even this reckoning obscures what these sites meant to so many forced to live and labor on them: plantations were Black homes as much as white.\n\nInsightfully reading the built environment of plantations, considering artifact fragments found in excavations of slave dwellings, and d.