The Great Negro Plot

by Mat Johnson

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  Articles

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  Blakey, Michael L. "The New York African Burial Ground Project: An Examination of Enslaved Lives, a Construction of Ancestral Ties." Transforming Anthropology 7, no. 1 (1998): 53—58.

  Bower, Beth A. "Material Culture in Boston: The Black Experi­ence." In The Archaeology of Inequality, edited by Randall H. McGuire and Robert Paynter, 55—63. Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell, 1991.

  Davis, Thomas. "Slavery in Colonial New York City." Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1981.

  Davis, Thomas J. "These Enemies of Their Own Household: A Note on the Troublesome Slave Population in Eighteenth Century New York City." In Articles on American Slavery: Slavery in the North and West, vol. 5, edited by Paul Finkelman, 17-37. New York: Garland Press, 1989.

  LaRoche, Cheryl J. "Beads from the African Burial Ground, New York City: A Preliminary Assessment." Beads: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers 6 (1994): 3-20.

  Perry, Warren R., and Michael L. Blakey. "Archaeology as Community Service: the African Burial Ground Project in New York City." In Lessons from the Past: An Introductory Reader in Archaeology, 45-51. Mountain View, Calif: Mayfield Publishing, 1999.

  A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR

  Mat Johnson is the author of the novels Hunting in Harlem and Drop. He received his M.F.A. from Columbia and now teaches at Bard College. He lives in New York's Hudson Valley with his family.