Tobacco, Pipes, and Race in Colonial Virginia: Little Tubes of Mighty Power - Paperback

by Anna S. Agbe-Davies (Author)

Tobacco, Pipes, and Race in Colonial Virginia investigates the economic and social power that surrounded the production and use of tobacco pipes in colonial Virginia and the difficulty of correlating objects with cultural identities.

Author Biography

Anna Agbe-Davies is a historical archaeologist and assistant professor at UNC Chapel Hill. She has a longstanding interest in the plantation societies of the colonial southeastern US and Caribbean, with a particular focus on the African diaspora. Agbe-Davies co-edited Social Archaeologies of Trade and Exchange, as well as contributing chapters on the concept of freedom in the archaeology of post-Emancipation African diasporas and on text analysis as a method for understanding the concept of "community."