Uncommon Ground: Archaeology and Early African America, 1650-1800

Winner of the Southern Anthropological Society's prestigious James Mooney Award, Uncommon Ground takes a unique archaeological approach to examining early African American life. Ferguson shows how black pioneers worked within the bars of bondage to shape their distinct identity and lay a rich foundation for the multicultural adjustments that became colonial America.Through pre-Revolutionary period artifacts gathered from plantations and urban slave communities, Ferguson integrates folklore, history, and research to reveal how these enslaved people actually lived. Impeccably researched and beautifully written.

• In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life
• Historical Archaeology (2nd Edition)
• "I, Too, Am America": Archaeological Studies of African-American Life
• Doing Historical Archaeology: Exercises Using Documentary, Oral, and Material Evidence
• A Guide to the Artifacts of Colonial America
• The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology
• Raising the Hunley: The Remarkable History and Recovery of the Lost Confederate Submarine
• Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
• By the Work of Their Hands: Studies in Afro-American Folklife
• Jamestown, the Buried Truth