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Independent curator Katz-Hyman and Rice (director, museum studies, George Washington Univ.) have produced the first specialized encyclopedia on the material culture of slavery in the United States (material culture here refers to physical objects produced and/or modified by humans). The set focuses on the American South, which had the greatest concentration of enslaved African Americans. The 170 signed articles are arranged alphabetically in two volumes and include brief bibliographies. M...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Gr 9 Up—Much has been learned about slave life since John Blassingame's The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South (Oxford Univ., 1972). These volumes enhance readers' knowledge of the topic by focusing on the material world of the enslaved. Drawing upon archaeological investigations, museum collections, and oral histories collected from former slaves by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration in 1936–1937, the 170 signed entries offer a fas...Log In or Sign Up to Read More