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Hidden in view: African spiritual spaces in North American landscapes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Timothy Ruppel ,
Jessica Neuwirth ,
Mark P. Leone  and
Gladys-Marie Fry
Timothy Ruppel
Affiliation:
Department of English, Howard University, (Email: TRu3923848@aol.com)
Jessica Neuwirth
Affiliation:
Archaeology in Annapolis Project/Historic Deerfield
Mark P. Leone
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland, (*Email: mleone@anth.umd.edu)
Gladys-Marie Fry
Affiliation:
Department of English, University of Maryland
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Abstract

How did enslaved African people in North America use material culture to create and signal their own identity? In a paper that has much significance for many other periods and places, the authors draw on archaeological and documentary evidence to show how African spiritual spaces were created in houses and gardens in the form of coded landscapes that were often hidden – though in view.

Keywords

North Americahistorical archaeologylandscapesslaveryreligion
Type
Research
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Antiquity , Volume 77 , Issue 296 , June 2003 , pp. 321 - 335
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2003

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