Livro back of the big house

Behind the Big Houses of the antebellum South existed a different world, socially and architecturally, where slaves lived and worked. John Michael Vlach explores the structures and spaces that formed the slaves environment. Through photographs and the words of former slaves, he portrays the plantation landscape from the slaves own point of view.The plantation landscape was chiefly the creation of ...

Behind the Big Houses of the antebellum South existed a different world, socially and architecturally, where slaves lived and worked. John Michael Vlach explores the structures and spaces that formed the slaves environment. Through photographs and the words of former slaves, he portrays the plantation landscape from the slaves own point of view.The plantation landscape was chiefly the creation of ...