African-American gardens and yards in the rural South / Richard Westmacott.
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TextPublication details: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©1992.Edition: 1st edDescription: xii, 198 pages, [24] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cmISBN: - 0870497618
- 9780870497612
- 0870497626
- 9780870497629
- African American gardens -- Southern States
- Gardens -- Southern States
- Gardening -- Southern States
- African Americans -- Southern States
- Jardins noirs américains -- États-Unis (Sud)
- Jardins -- États-Unis (Sud)
- Jardinage -- États-Unis (Sud)
- Noirs américains -- États-Unis (Sud)
- Southern States -- Rural conditions
- SB457.527 .W47 1992
- 7,26
- 73.94
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-190) and index.
Foreword / by Thomas A. Singleton -- Preface 1998 -- Introduction -- Historical roots -- Gardeners and their gardens: Function -- Gardeners and their gardens: Pattern -- Gardeners and their gardens: Practices -- Expressions of values, ideals, and beliefs -- A search for identity in African-American gardens -- Change -- Questions for structured discussions -- Garden survey plans -- Frequency analyses of garden plants.
This book is the first extensive survey of African-American gardening traditions in the rural South. Richard Westmacott has recovered valuable data for those interested in African-American material culture and the history of vernacular gardens by creating measured drawings and physical inventories of African-American gardens in three geographic areas: the low country of South Carolina, the southern piedmont of Georgia, and the black belt of Alabama. The descriptions are.
Enhanced by the author's personal interviews with the gardeners, in which the aesthetic qualities, designs, and purposes of their yards and gardens are documented. Westmacott traces the principal functions of African-American yards and gardens over the last two hundred years. During slavery, African-American gardens were used primarily to grow life-sustaining vegetables, often to raise some chickens and pigs. The yard of a crowded cabin was often the only place where the.
Slave family could assert some measure of independence and perhaps find some degree of spiritual refreshment. Since slavery, working the garden for the survival of the family has become less urgent, but now pleasure is taken from growing flowers and produce and in welcoming friends to the yard. Similarities in attitude between rural southern blacks and whites are reflected in the expression of such values as the importance of the agrarian lifestyle, self-reliance, and.
Private ownership. However, the patterns and practices in which these beliefs are manifested are uniquely African American.
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