A Chesapeake Family And Their Slaves

Download or read book A Chesapeake Family and their Slaves written by Anne Elizabeth Yentsch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-05-12 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzing the material remains left by Maryland's colonists in the eighteenth century in conjunction with historical records and works of art, archaeologists have reconstructed the daily life of the aristocratic British Calvert family, whose head was governor of Maryland. In this large household people from different cultures interacted, and English and West African lifestyles merged. Using this fascinating case study, Anne Yentsch illustrates the way in which historical archaeology draws on different disciplines to interpret the past.