The Domestic Architecture of Slavery at George Washington's Mount Vernon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9387355 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dennis J Pogue (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-22 |
| Publication date | 2002-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Winterthur Portfolio (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0084-0416 • E-ISSN: 1545-6927 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/376340 |
| OpenAlex | W2110361640 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 3 |
Mount Vernon, the eighteenth‐century plantation of George Washington, was home to a large, dispersed, and highly organized community of enslaved workers. Information available in the form of documentary evidence, archaeological data, and extant structures is sufficient to reconstruct the system of slave housing in use there. The resulting case study not only documents the various types of buildings used to house the slaves at the plantation of one of Virginia's wealthiest and most powerful citizens but also provides insight into the factors that influenced Washington and his fellow planters in making their decisions regarding the nature of the domestic accommodations afforded their slaves
Archaeology · Art history · Economic history · Extant taxon · George (robot · Mount · American History and Culture · Architecture · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Engineering · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History
| Citations per year | 0.22 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2003 - 2024 (22) |
| Highly cited | No |