Slavery in the City
Architecture and Landscapes of Urban Slavery in North America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4157489 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lee Baldwin Dalzell (Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 105 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 678-679 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jay332 |
| OpenAlex | W2905789512 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
Although most studies of built environments and American slavery have focused on rural plantations, the investigations in Slavery in the City deal with particular towns and cities in which slaveholders and their bondsmen coexisted in urban settings. Without the supervision they would have had in the field, blacks instead roamed city streets on errands for their masters, engaged in outside work, and lived in close proximity to freed blacks, challenging white power and requiring a range of solutions to keep the enslaved subjugated. These essays—grounded in architectural and archeological research—present a spectrum of settings. Edward A. Chappell's analysis of domestic architecture focuses on prerevolutionary Williamsburg, later on Annapolis, and still later on Falmouth, a prosperous center of the sugar trade in Jamaica. John Michael Vlach's investigation deals with the North, where, despite some thirty thousand slaves listed in official records for New York and New Jersey alone, few examples of their housing survive. Clifton Ellis's analysis of Annapolis pools information from tax and census lists with lot histories and maps, and also uses local records to describe a relatively stable mixed community. Gina Haney's research is centered on Charleston, and Kenneth Hafertepe explores housing and slavery as it expanded westward into Texas, where lots were more expansive and less enclosed (one chapter illustration shows a slave quarter on a back lot that was surrounded by nothing more than a picket fence in Houston). Charles H. Faulkner focuses on Knoxville, Tennessee, an urban center for the region with important trade ties to areas farther south. And Lisa Tolbert uses court records of a murder trial, giving us a snapshot of a community of bondsmen and their interaction with white power in a small town in Tennessee
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |