Contributors are needed for assignments for thought-provoking entries for an
encyclopedia of material slave life co-edited by Martha Katz-Hyman and Kym
Rice and to be published by Greenwood/ABC-CLIO, Inc.  Scheduled to appear in
2010, this two-volume encyclopedia will focus on the material culture of
American slave life through the end of the Civil War and is aimed at general
audiences as well as high school and college students.  More than 200
alphabetically arranged entries on all areas of the material culture of
enslaved African Americans will be included.  Topic areas include tools,
transportation, cooking equipment, personal objects, agriculture,
architecture, furnishings, religion, food and mechanisms of control.



Contributors must be able to write to specification for a general audience
and adhere to deadlines; a modest honorarium is available.



Please send CV for consideration to [log in to unmask] Replies only to
qualified candidates.



Martha Katz-Hyman

Independent Curator



Kym Rice

Director, Director, Museum Studies Program

The George Washington University

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