Ancestors of Worthy Life: Plantation Slavery and Black Heritage at Mount Clare by Moyer, Teresa S.
Ancestors of Worthy Life: Plantation Slavery and Black Heritage at Mount Clare by Moyer, Teresa S.

Ancestors of Worthy Life: Plantation Slavery and Black Heritage at Mount Clare

Recognizing the lives of the enslaved at the historic site of Mount ClareEnslaved African Americans helped transform...
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Author: Teresa S. Moyer
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Ancestors of Worthy Life: Plantation Slavery and Black Heritage at Mount Clare by Moyer, Teresa S.

Ancestors of Worthy Life: Plantation Slavery and Black Heritage at Mount Clare

$65.10
Ancestors of Worthy Life: Plantation Slavery and Black Heritage at Mount Clare by Moyer, Teresa S.

Ancestors of Worthy Life: Plantation Slavery and Black Heritage at Mount Clare

$65.10
Author: Teresa S. Moyer
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Recognizing the lives of the enslaved at the historic site of Mount Clare


Enslaved African Americans helped transform the United States economy, culture, and history. Yet these individuals' identities, activities, and sometimes their very existence are often all but expunged from historically preserved plantations and house museums. Reluctant to show and interpret the homes and lives of the enslaved, many sites have never shared the stories of the African Americans who once lived and worked on their land. One such site is Mount Clare near Baltimore, Maryland, where Teresa Moyer pulls no punches in her critique of racism in historic preservation.

In her balanced discussion, Moyer examines the inextricably entangled lives of the enslaved, free Black people, and white landowners. Her work draws on evidence from archaeology, history, geology, and other fields to explore the ways that white privilege continues to obscure the contributions of Black people at Mount Clare. She demonstrates that a landscape's post-emancipation history can make a powerful statement about Black heritage. Ultimately she argues that the inclusion of enslaved persons in the history of these sites would honor these "ancestors of worthy life," make the social good of public history available to African Americans, and address systemic racism in America.



Publication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.



Author: Teresa S. Moyer
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 07/18/2023
Pages: 238
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9780813080277

About the Author
Teresa S. Moyer is an archaeologist with the National Park Service and coauthor of The Making of Harpers Ferry National Historical Park: A Devil, Two Rivers, and a Dream.
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