"By analyzing what she describes as richly detailed archaeological site biographies, De Cunzo reconstructs how Delaware's farming people actively created their identities and shaped their interactions at home, at work, at church, and in the marketplace as they began to confront industrial capitalism. Informed by a contextual, interpretive perspective, this valuable work reveals the complex interrelationships among environment, technology, economy, social order, and cultural praxis that defined the "cultures of agriculture" in Delaware during the last three centuries."--Jacket.

"From April 13 through May 20, 1992, staff members ... conducted archaeological data recovery at Site 44JC643 in James City County, Virginia .... This site contained a complex of features including the remains of post buildings, root cellars, fences, and a ditch. Although the initial research results indicated that the remains were most likely associated with a tenant farmstead, data recovery suggests that the resources are probably components of an eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century slave quarter. ..."--Abstract, page ii.