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Alasdair,
Some citations which may be of use:
Westmacott, Richard. "Pattern and Practice in Traditional
African-American Gardens in Rural Georgia." LANDSCAPE
JOURNAL 10, No. 2 (Fall, 1991): 87-104.
Westmacott, Richard. AFRICAN-AMERICAN GARDENS AND YARDS IN
THE RURAL SOUTH. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee
Press, 1992.
Your intern might also want to look at slave narratives and
ex-slave interviews; the Virginia WPA material is unique in
that the interviewers were African-American. For a start, see
WEEVILS IN THE WHEAT, which was first published in 1976 (there
should be a recent paperback edition available).
I know there are accounts of slaves having access to garden
plots, however there seems to have been a fair amount of
gathering of wild greens, persimmons, and so forth.
Good luck,
Marty Perdue
[log in to unmask]
(architectural historian with an interest in things vernacular
and one time employee of Doug Sanford and Bill Kelso at
Monticello)
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