Creating Freedom: Material Culture and African-American Identity at Oakley Plantation, Louisiana, 1840-1950

Historical archaeologist Laurie Wilkie explores the experiences of the majority of people who made their home on southern plantations: the African American labourers. Specifically, Wilkie examines the lives of four black families who lived at Oakley Plantation in south Louisiana's West Feliciana Parish over the course of one hundred years.