196 pages, 6 x 9
11 b/w illus., table, notes, bibliography, index
Hardcover
Release Date:27 Feb 2024
ISBN:9780813069951
Memory and Power at L’Hermitage Plantation
Heritage of a Nervous Landscape
SERIES:
Cultural Heritage Studies
University Press of Florida
This book documents the treatment of enslaved people at L’Hermitage Plantation in Maryland from 1794 to 1827, showing how the plantation owners’ strategies to maintain power and control can be seen in the spatial landscapes of the site.
Megan M. Bailey is a research affiliate of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland and has served as an archaeologist for the National Park Service.