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The Archaeology of Mothering

by Laurie A. Wilkie

2003 272 pages eng

"Using archaeological materials recovered from a housesite in Mobile, Alabama, Laurie Wilkie explores how one extended African-American family engaged with competing and conflicting mothering ideologies in the post-Emancipation South. The female head of this household, Lucrecia Perryman, turned to m…

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