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1. Introduction
A Note on the Word “Nigger”
2. Key Concepts
Who are African Americans?
What is “culture”?
What is heritage?
National Park Service Historical Themes
African in Spanish America
Prestor John
Confraternities
Esteban
Juan Garrido
Racial Distinction in the Military
Africans in the Chesapeake
The First African “American” Family
“Tithable” Laws
Anthony and Mary Johnson—A Free African Family
Work of Enslaved Women in the Chesapeake
Work of Enslaved Men in the Chesapeake
Ironworkers
Africans in the Low Country
Work, Marriage, Christianity
Low Country African Families
Low Country Foodways through the Archeologist’s Lens
Magic Bowls
Environment, Work and Health of Low Country Slaves
Africans in French Colonies
Physical Development of Louisiana
African Systems of Meaning
Notes on the Origins and Evolution of African American Language
Of Time, Language and Worldview
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Key Concepts
Who are African Americans?
What is ethnography?
What is "culture" ?
What are cultural resources?
What are "ethnographic" resources?
What is "heritage preservation" ?
What is stewardship?
What is the NPS Thematic Framework?
Self Assessment
Ethnographic Research Center
What is Ethnographic Research?
Why is Ethnographic Research conducted?
Who conducts Ethnographic Research?
How is it different from other Social Science Research?
What are Ethnographic Research methodologies?
How does the NPS use Ethnographic Research?
Who uses Ethnographic Research?
How does Ethnographic Research help with the preservation of Ethnographic Resources?
Ethics in Ethnographic Research
Module 1 —African Nation Founders 1500– 1799
Overview
Historic Contexts
Africans Before Captivity
Self Assessment 1
Exchanging People for Trade Goods
Why was African Heritage Lost?
Who were the First Africans in America?
The Transatlantic Slave Trade
Which Europeans Trafficked in Slaves?
Laws that Bound
Laws that Freed
Wars
Conclusion
Self Assessment 2
Cultural Heritage
Africans in Spanish America
Africans in the Chesapeake
Africans in the Low Country
Africans in French America
African Systems of Meaning
Africans in the Northern Colonies
Credits
Module II African Nation Builders 1800 1865
Module III Lifting as We Climb 1865 1965
Heritage Preservation Notes
Who Preserves Heritage?
Heritage Preservation Law
Protecting Indigenous Peoples Patrimony
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Ethnography and Heritage Preservation
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