“Coming to Terms with Slavery’s Kitchen-Quarters” with Douglas Sanford, Ph.D.  $15 Suggested Donation  includes light meal of ham biscuits and ice tea.

Recent research underscores the importance of kitchen-quarters – an arrangement in which kitchen buildings were also used as living quarters for enslaved servants – in both plantation and city residences. In fact, kitchen-quarters likely comprised the most frequent type of slave housing in American cities and towns.  Doug Sanford will discuss kitchen-quarters, slave households, and how African Americans transformed these buildings and their surrounding yards into important spaces for family and community.  He will also speak about Virginia Slave Housing project’s efforts to promote public awareness of the architecture of American slavery.

About Douglas Sanford, Ph.D.

Douglas W. Sanford, Professor of Historic Preservation at Mary Washington University has conducted archaeological research in Brazil, Arizona, Pennsylvania, within Virginia at the Yorktown Battlefield, Monticello, and in the Northern Neck area. While his professional and academic career has centered on historical archaeology, over the last 10 years much of his research has focused on architectural issues of slavery and slave housing in Virginia where he studies surviving slave-related buildings.

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