I Touch the Earth, the Earth Touches ME by Hugh Prather

I Touch the Earth, the Earth Touches ME by Hugh Prather

This book discusses the daily life and culture of enslaved Africans and their descendants. Enslaved Africans and their descendants comprised a significant portion of colonial Virginia populations, with most living on rural slave quarters adjacent to the agricultural fields in which they labored. Archaeological excavations into these home sites have provided unique windows into the daily lifeways and culture of these early inhabitants. subfloor pits be-neath the houses. The most common explanations of the functions of these pits are as storage places for personal belongings or root vegetables, and some contextual and ethnohistoric data suggest they may have served as West African-style shrines. Through analysis of 103 subfloor pits dating from the 17th through mid-19th centuries, Samford reveals how data on shape, location, surface area, and depth, as well as contextual analysis of artifact assemblages, can show how subfloor pits functioned for the enslaved. Archaeology reveals the material circumstances of slaves' lives, which in turn opens the door to illuminating other aspects of life: spirituality, symbolic meanings assigned to material goods, social life, individual and group agency, and acts of resistance and accommodation. about how West African, possibly Igbo, cultural traditions were maintained and transformed in the Virginia Chesapeake.

Hugh Prather (1938-2010) was a lay minister and bestselling author. He is most famous for Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person, which began as a personal journal and has sold more than 5 million copies and has been translated into ten languages. With his wife, Gayle, he also wrote Notes to Each Other, Parables from Other Planets, and I Will Never Leave You.

Gayle Prather, along with her late husband Hugh Prather, is the author of many books, including Notes to Myself, which has sold over a million copies, Notes to Each Other, and I Will Never Leave You. She lives in Tucson, Arizona, where she is a resident minister at St. Francis in the Foothills Methodist Church.

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ISBN 13	9780385050630
ISBN 10	0385050631
Title	I Touch the Earth, the Earth Touches ME
Author	Hugh Prather
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Main Street Books
Year published	1972-08-01
Number of pages	164
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