A Tribute to the Legacy of Leland Ferguson: A Journey From Uncommon Ground to God's Fields

DOCUMENT Citation Only Diane Wallman.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "A Tribute to the Legacy of Leland Ferguson: A Journey From Uncommon Ground to God's Fields", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In his research, through his mentorship and throughout his life, Leland Ferguson emphasized the power of narrative and visual arts to enhance our connections with the past. He consistently highlighted and incorporated artworks in his presentations, publications, and personal expression....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelly E. Goldberg.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "A Tribute to the Legacy of Leland Ferguson: A Journey From Uncommon Ground to God's Fields", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Throughout his career, Leland Ferguson pushed against a priori notions of the ways in which archaeology should be conducted, whom it should be conducted by, and how it should be interpreted. He championed a multidisciplinary methodology that diversified informative data sources as well...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laurie Wilkie.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "A Tribute to the Legacy of Leland Ferguson: A Journey From Uncommon Ground to God's Fields", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Leland Ferguson's archaeological work remains remarkable for its empathy towards persons, be they represented by archaeological remains, stakeholders, students or colleagues. In recent considerations of how archaeology might better engage with critical disability studies, I found myself...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Natalie P Adams Pope. James A Stewart.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "A Tribute to the Legacy of Leland Ferguson: A Journey From Uncommon Ground to God's Fields", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the last quarter of the twentieth century, the South Carolina Lowcountry became a focus of archaeological research into the lives of enslaved African Americans toiling on plantations. Dr. Leland Ferguson was a primary leader in this field of study and used his observations from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only J.W. Joseph.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "A Tribute to the Legacy of Leland Ferguson: A Journey From Uncommon Ground to God's Fields", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Leland Ferguson was a mentor, colleague, and friend who influenced my work with the African American past and colonoware in particular.  In this paper I reflect on those interactions and the intersections between Leland’s colonoware research and my own. I consider this research from the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dale Rosengarten. Theodore Rosengarten. Andrew Agha.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "A Tribute to the Legacy of Leland Ferguson: A Journey From Uncommon Ground to God's Fields", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Strength was a key word in Leland Ferguson’s lexicon. Awed by the survival of the people forced into slavery on plantations in the Carolinas and Virginia, Leland asked, “Where did their strength come from?” He found answers in the stories they left in the ground and nailed shut the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Theresa Singleton.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "A Tribute to the Legacy of Leland Ferguson: A Journey From Uncommon Ground to God's Fields", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. One of Leland Ferguson’s goals when writing Uncommon Ground was to present his archaeological findings on colonoware and of the South Carolina Lowcountry to a general audience in a similar vein as that of James Deetz’s In Small things Forgotten. Unlike Deetz, his study centered on the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Agha.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "A Tribute to the Legacy of Leland Ferguson: A Journey From Uncommon Ground to God's Fields", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As his student and friend, Leland asked me to walk and talk with him and contemplate the world around us. He taught us how to look at things differently, with patience and attention. He made me ponder not just archaeology in the field, but life. Through Leland's subtle cues I have...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David W. Babson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "A Tribute to the Legacy of Leland Ferguson: A Journey From Uncommon Ground to God's Fields", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. From 1985 to 1987, Leland Ferguson and I prepared a detailed interpretive map of 18th to 19th century rice plantations along the East Branch of Cooper River, northeast of Charleston, S.C. We drew the layout of these plantations onto an overlay of U.S.G.S topo maps. Leland's first...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Geoffrey R Hughes.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "A Tribute to the Legacy of Leland Ferguson: A Journey From Uncommon Ground to God's Fields", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In God’s Fields (2011) Leland Ferguson examined the interplay between religion, race, and landscape in the Moravian town of Salem, North Carolina. In doing so, he highlighted the vital role of faith in social life. By examining cultural change vis-à-vis race and landscape in a...