This article examines Black communities’ engagement with practices of place and alternative figurations of land and water in the antebellum and post-emancipation periods around the lower–Chesapeake Bay. It historicizes the work of enslaved, free, and emancipated communities to create a distinctive and often furtive social architecture rivaling, threatening, and challenging the infrastructures of abstraction, commodification, and social control developed by white elites before and after the formal abolition of slavery. Practices centered in the various iterations of the plot—the site of the body's interment, the garden parcel, and hidden insurrectionary activity—fostered a vision of de-commodified water and landscapes as well as resources. Evolving in dialectic with mastery and dominion—or biblically justified total control—enslaved and post-emancipation communities claimed and created a set of communal resources within the interstices of plantation ecologies, constituting the Black commons.

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绘制黑色公地

本文考察了黑人社区在下切萨皮克湾周围的战前和解放后时期对地方实践和土地和水的替代形象的参与。它将被奴役、自由和解放的社区的工作历史化，以创造一种独特且往往是偷偷摸摸的社会架构，以对抗、威胁和挑战由白人精英在正式废除奴隶制之前和之后发展起来的抽象、商品化和社会控制的基础设施。以地块的各种迭代为中心的实践——尸体埋葬地点、花园包裹和隐藏的叛乱活动——培养了一种去商品化的水和景观以及资源的愿景。