Introduction: Exploring and contextualizing African American life in a cultural borderland, 1690s to 1950s / Michael J. Gall and Richard F. Veit
Part I. Slavery and material culture
Identifying an eighteenth-century slave quarter complex at the Cedar Creek Road site in southern Delaware / William B. Liebeknecht
Colonoware in the upper Mid-Atlantic and Northeast / Keri J. Sansevere
An archaeological view of slavery and social relations at Rock Hall, Lawrence, New York / Ross Thomas Rava and Christopher N. Matthews
Part II. Housing, community, and labor
Navigation and negotiation : adaptive strategies of a Free African American family in central Delaware / Michael J. Gall, Glenn R. Modica, and Tabitha C. Hilliard
The material culture of tenancy : excavations at an African American tenant farm, Christiana, Pennsylvania / James A. Delle
Mapping Marshalltown : documentary archaeology of a southern New Jersey landscape of emancipation / Janet L. Sheridan
Tenants on the woodlot : the Bird-Houston site, St. Georges Hundred, Delaware / Jason P. Shellenhamer and John Bedell
The relationships of race, class, and food in the African American community of Timbuctoo, New Jersey / Christopher Barton
Part III. Death and memorialization
"Born a slave, died free" : antebellum African American gravemarkers in northern New Jersey / Richard F. Veit and Mark Nonestied
Above the valley and below the radar : Mount Gilead African Methodist Episcopal Church and its community / Meagan M. Ratini
An African American Union soldier remembered : James Elbert and the African Union Church Cemetery in Polktown, Delaware / David Orr
Part IV. Reflections
Reflections on dynamic African American social cultures and communities in upper Mid-Atlantic, 1610s to 1950s / Christopher C. Fennell
African American cultures and place in the greater Delaware Valley borderland
1620s to 1920s / Lu Ann De Cunzo.