“THE REAL DISTANCE WAS GREAT ENOUGH”: REMAPPING A MULTIVALENT PLANTATION LANDSCAPE USING HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (HGIS)

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dc.contributor.advisorLeone, Mark P.en_US
dc.contributor.authorSkolnik, Benjamin Adamen_US
dc.contributor.departmentAnthropologyen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-22T05:39:19Z
dc.date.available2019-06-22T05:39:19Z
dc.date.issued2019en_US
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation uses the tools of historical Geographic Information Systems (hGIS) to locate and describe mid-nineteenth-century plantation landscapes in Talbot County, Maryland. The methodology described here combines historic maps, historic and modern aerial photography, LiDAR-derived elevation data, historic census data, and textual descriptions. It also uses them in conjunction with an ongoing archaeological research project at Wye House, the ancestral seat of the Lloyd family and site of enslavement of Frederick Douglass, near Easton, Maryland in order to further develop ways for archaeologists, historians, and other researchers to work with cartographic and spatial data in a digital framework. This methodology can be used across multiple scales to survey remotely individual sites or even entire counties for potential archaeological resources. Furthermore, it examines the autobiographies of Frederick Douglass, not only because he was a witness to these landscapes, but also because he can be read as a social theorist who addresses issues of race and racialized landscapes throughout his writings. Lastly, it uses these sources of data to consider Dell Upton’s spatial hypothesis regarding racialized plantation landscapes. Taken together, this study of mid-nineteenth-century Talbot County, Maryland represents one way to identify and recover lost sites of African American heritage that would otherwise remain lost.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/u54t-fohk
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/22207
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledArchaeologyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAmerican historyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledGeographyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledarchaeologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFrederick Douglassen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledGISen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledhGISen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledlandscapesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledplantationsen_US
dc.title“THE REAL DISTANCE WAS GREAT ENOUGH”: REMAPPING A MULTIVALENT PLANTATION LANDSCAPE USING HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (HGIS)en_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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