Decline in the Use and Production of Red-Earthenware Cooking Vessels in the Northeast, 1780-1880

Janowitz, Meta F.

doi:10.22191/neha/vol42/iss1/7

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“…While no crocks, jars, or jugs were distinguished, there were thirteen identifiable redware bowls in the assemblage (Table ). Although redwares are a type of coarse earthenware commonly associated with food storage and preservation, these redware bowls were presumably used to prepare and/or consume liquids or semiliquid foods like porridges or gruels (Janowitz , 100). The limited number of utilitarian vessels in this privy potentially indicate a shift in Mary Boston Duglass's household labor or subsistence strategies.…”

Section: The Ceramic Assemblage From the Bh Housementioning

confidence: 99%

Boarding: Black Women in Nantucket Generating Income and Building Community

Lee

2019

Transforming Anthropology

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This article addresses Black women's economic roles in nineteenth-century Nantucket, Massachusetts, during the island's ascendency as the center of a global whaling industry. Much of the existing scholarship highlights men's participation in the whaling industry, while Black women's contributions remain obscured. I use two main lines of evidence to interpret Black women's working lives: census records and ceramic vessels recovered from the Boston-Higginbotham House, a historic residence that was occupied by two Black families for almost 200 years. Changes in vessel forms over time indicate that Black women were increasingly finding ways to supplement the income of their spouses. I argue that Black women played an integral role in their household's economy, and in supporting the whaling industry, especially as boardinghouse operators. This form of entrepreneurship also served to expand Black families' opportunities for building social networks and strengthening the Black community. [Black women, boarding, labor, whaling, Nantucket]

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Section: The Ceramic Assemblage From the Bh Housementioning

confidence: 99%