By the work of their hands : studies in Afro-American folklife
Title:
By the work of their hands : studies in Afro-American folklife
Author:
Vlach, John Michael, 1948-
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, [1991]
©1991
Physical Description:
xviii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Arrival and survival -- Afro-American domestic artifacts in Eighteenth-Century Virginia -- Black craft traditions in Texas -- From gravestone to miracle : traditional perspective and the work of William Edmondson -- Philip Simmons -- "Us quarters fixed fine" : finding black builders in southern history -- Shotgun house -- Afro-American housing in Virginia's landscape of slavery.
ISBN:
9780813913667
9780813913766
Format :
Book
