First Edition. Softcover. Published in 2023 by The University of North Carolina Press. By Whitney Nell Stewart.
*Winner of the Ramirez Family Award for Most Significant Scholarly Work by the Texas Institute of Letters* Insightfully reading the built environment of plantations, considering artifact fragments found in excavations of slave dwellings, and drawing on legal records and plantation owners’ papers, Whitney Nell Stewart illuminates how enslaved people struggled to make home amid innumerable constraints and obstacles imposed by white southerners.
