![]() ![]() There are lots of photos, graphs and illustrations in this book, which are helpful in explaining his points, but the pictures are often placed several pages away from where the figure is mentioned in the text, so the reader has to flip back and forth to see what the author is talking about. Yes, he discovered some important things and his personal stories are sometimes illustrative and helpful, but in other places his tone is generally arrogant.įinally, a complaint about the editing. My second critique is that the author is somewhat self praising. He briefly discusses house design and a few other topics, but more variety would have been helpful. Ferguson is clearly an expert on colonial era ceramics and pottery, so most of his examples of archaeology are of pottery, and that gets a bit tedious. ![]() This book has a couple of flaws, however. For when the book was written (1992), I imagine that these ideas would have been somewhat revolutionary. The overall themes of this book (that African slaves should be considered pioneers and that there weren't clear-cut lines between White, Native American and African cultures during the colonial period) are well done. ![]()
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