![]() During McClellan's Peninsular Campaign of 1862, Endview served as a Confederate field hospital and campground during the Siege of Yorktown. In 1861, at the outbreak of the Civil War, Curtis formed the Warwick Beauregards who later mustered in to the 32nd Virginia Infantry Regiment. Curtis was one of two surgeons in the peninsular region and he was a highly respected member of southern society. Humphrey Harwood Curtis purchased the estate. Throughout the Antebellum Era, this plantation stayed in the Harwood family name and produced tobacco, wheat, and supported livestock. This plantation house was built in 1769 by William Harwood, whose ancestors had owned the land for nearly 130 years prior. He assigns technological development to a specific race, without taking into account the fact that cultural continuity has nothing to do with ethnicity, just as technology use has no strict correlation with ethnicity.Located just outside the city limits of Newport News stands Endview Plantation. He fails to investigate deeper and move past his own British colonial cultural historicism. Brewington, clearly race biased in the above quote, also fails to examine cause and effect outside of a white British colonial perspective in any of his works. It is riddled with the causal yet persistent racism directed at the First Nations of North America that was part of our populist cultural historical narrative well into the 1970s. " From an anthropological perspective, the above quote which is often cited regarding logboats, is problematic for the Chesapeake. The white man's superior knowledge of small craft soon indicated changes which would improve the canoe: sharp ends would make her easier to propel and more seaworthy broader beam and a keel would increase stability: sail would lessen the work of getting from place to place. The colonists were quick to adopt these canoes, so great was their need for watercraft which could not be otherwise obtained. " After 1590 when the drawings of John White had made at Raleigh's Roanoke settlement were published, Englishmen were familiar with the dugout canoes the southern Indians built. ![]() ![]() Brewington, heavily cited in our current literature. Let us start our narrative at the beginning with the work of M. To understand this, we must take a step back and start a narrative with influence in the Annales school of thought. First, can we really quantify everything we don't know which applies to the narrative our published work is supposed to entail versus the sources we have cited? Second, how does our preference for our own societal norms via selecting comfortable accepted secondary sources contradict the generation of knowledge by framing our narrative in a manner inconsistent with the reality the primary historical data presents us with? In other words, how can we gain awareness of our own subjectivity and use that awareness to create a more objective narrative? In the field of maritime archaeology for the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, no one vessel type has been subject to the generation and continuity of published ignorance more than that of the logboat. Most modern anthropologists would recognize that ignorance is a significant aspect of any academic publication in two ways. Ignorance and fact are woven together in cultural historical narratives to provide readers with societal " truths, " which are comforting. Ignorance is undeniably ever present in the act of knowledge generation and the published continuity of academic traditions.
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