Archaeologies Of Slavery And Freedom In The Caribbean

Author : Lynsey A. Bates,John M. Chenoweth,James A. Delle
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781683400714

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Archaeologies of Slavery and Freedom in the Caribbean by Lynsey A. Bates,John M. Chenoweth,James A. Delle Pdf

Caribbean plantations and the forces that shaped them--slavery, sugar, capitalism, and the tropical, sometimes deadly environment--have been studied extensively. This volume brings together alternate stories of sites that fall outside the large cash-crop estates. Employing innovative research tools and integrating data from Dominica, St. Lucia, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Barbados, Nevis, Montserrat, and the British Virgin Islands, the contributors investigate the oft-overlooked interstitial spaces where enslaved Africans sought to maintain their own identities inside and outside the fixed borders of colonialism. Despite grueling work regimes and social and economic restrictions, people held in bondage carved out places of their own at the margins of slavery's reach. These essays reveal a complex world within and between sprawling plantations--a world of caves, gullies, provision grounds, field houses, fields, and the areas beyond them, where the enslaved networked, interacted, and exchanged goods and information. The volume also explores the lives of poor whites, Afro-descendant members of military garrisons, and free people of color, demonstrating that binary models of black slaves and white planters do not fully encompass the diversity of Caribbean identities before and after emancipation. Together, the analyses of marginal spaces and postemancipation communities provide a more nuanced understanding of the experiences of those who lived in the historic Caribbean, and who created, nurtured, and ultimately cut the roots of empire. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

Author : James A. Delle,Elizabeth C. Clay
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781683403173

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Archaeology of Domestic Landscapes of the Enslaved in the Caribbean by James A. Delle,Elizabeth C. Clay Pdf

While previous research on household archaeology in the colonial Caribbean has drawn heavily on artifact analysis, this volume provides the first in-depth examination of the architecture of slave housing during this period. It examines the considerations that went into constructing and inhabiting living spaces for the enslaved and reveals the diversity of people and practices in these settings. Contributors present case studies using written descriptions, period illustrations, and standing architecture, in addition to archaeological evidence to illustrate the wide variety of built environments for enslaved populations in places including Jamaica, the Bahamas, and the islands of the Lesser Antilles. They investigate how the enslaved defined their social positions and identities through house, yard, and garden space; they explore what daily life was like for slaves on military compounds; they compare the spatial arrangements of slave villages on plantations based on type of labor; and they show how the style of traditional laborer houses became a form of vernacular architecture still in use today. This volume expands our understanding of the wide range of enslaved experiences across British, French, Dutch, and Danish colonies. Contributors: Elizabeth C. Clay | James A. Delle | Todd M. Ahlman | Marco Meniketti | Kenneth Kelly | Hayden Bassett | James A. Delle | Kristen R. Fellows | Allan D. Meyers | Elizabeth C. Clay | Alicia Odewale | Meredith D. Hardy | Zachary J. M. Beier | Mark W. Hauser A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series Publication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Author : James A. Delle
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813057132

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The Archaeology of Northern Slavery and Freedom by James A. Delle Pdf

Investigating what life was like for African Americans north of the Mason-Dixon Line during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, James Delle presents the first overview of archaeological research on the topic in this book, debunking the notion that the “free” states of the Northeast truly offered freedom and safety for African Americans. Excavations at cities including New York and Philadelphia reveal that slavery was a crucial part of the expansion of urban life as late as the 1840s. Slaves cleared forests, loaded and unloaded ships, and manufactured charcoal to fuel iron furnaces. The case studies in this book also show that enslaved African-descended people frequently staffed suburban manor houses and agricultural plantations. Moreover, for free blacks, racist laws such as the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 limited the experience of freedom in the region. Delle explains how members of the African diaspora created rural communities of their own and worked in active resistance against the institution of slavery, assisting slaves seeking refuge and at times engaging in violent conflicts. The book concludes with a discussion on the importance of commemorating these archaeological sites, as they reveal an important yet overlooked chapter in African American history. Delle shows that archaeology can challenge dominant historical narratives by recovering material artifacts that express the agency of their makers and users, many of whom were written out of the documentary record. Emphasizing that race-based slavery began in the Northeast and persisted there for nearly two centuries, this book corrects histories that have been whitewashed and forgotten. A volume in the series the American Experience in Archaeological Perspective, edited by Michael S. Nassaney

Author : Christer Petley,Stephan Lenik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315518633

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Material Cultures of Slavery and Abolition in the British Caribbean by Christer Petley,Stephan Lenik Pdf

Material things mattered immensely to those who engaged in daily struggles over the character and future of slavery and to those who subsequently contested the meanings of freedom in the post-emancipation Caribbean. Throughout the history of slavery, objects and places were significant to different groups of people, from the opulent master class to enslaved field hands as well as to other groups, including maroons, free people of colour and missionaries, all of who shared the lived environments of Caribbean plantation colonies. By exploring the rich material world inhabited by these people, this book offers new ways of seeing history from below, of linking localised experiences with global transformations and connecting deeply personal lived realities with larger epochal events that defined the history of slavery and its abolition in the British Caribbean. This book was originally published as a special issue of Slavery & Abolition.

Author : Todd M. Ahlman,Gerald F. Schroedl
Publisher : Caribbean Archaeology and Ethn
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817320324

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Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean by Todd M. Ahlman,Gerald F. Schroedl Pdf

New perspectives on Caribbean historical archaeology that go beyond the colonial plantation Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean: Contextualizing Sites through Colonialism, Capitalism, and Globalism addresses issues in Caribbean history and historical archaeology such as freedom, frontiers, urbanism, postemancipation life, trade, plantation life, and new heritage. This collection moves beyond plantation archaeology by expanding the knowledge of the diverse Caribbean experiences from the late seventeenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries. The essays in this volume are grounded in strong research programs and data analysis that incorporate humanistic narratives in their discussions of Amerindian, freedmen, plantation, institutional, military, and urban sites. Sites include a sample of the many different types found across the Caribbean from a variety of colonial contexts that are seldom reported in archaeological research, yet constitute components essential to understanding the full range and depth of Caribbean history. Contributors examine urban contexts in Nevis and St. John and explore the economic connections between Europeans and enslaved Africans in urban and plantation settings in St. Eustatius. The volume contains a pioneering study of frontier exchange with Amerindians in Dominica and a synthesis of ceramic exchange networks among enslaved Africans in the Leeward Islands. Chapters on military forts in Nevis and St. Kitts call attention to this often-neglected aspect of the Caribbean colonial landscape. Contributors also directly address culture heritage issues relating to community participation and interpretation. On St. Kitts, the legacy of forced confinement of lepers ties into debates of current public health policy. Plantation site studies from Antigua and Martinique are especially relevant because they detail comparisons of French and British patterns of African enslavement and provide insights into how each addressed the social and economic changes that occurred with emancipation. Contributors Todd M. Ahlman / Douglas V. Armstrong / Samantha Rebovich Bardoe / Paul Farnsworth / Jeffrey R. Ferguson / R. Grant Gilmore III / Diana González-Tennant / Edward González-Tennant / Barbara J. Heath / Carter L. Hudgins Kenneth G. Kelly / Eric Klingelhofer / Roger H. Leech / Stephan Lenik / Gerald F. Schroedl / Diane Wallman / Christian Williamson

Author : Brian L. Moore,B. W. Higman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9766401373

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Slavery, Freedom and Gender by Brian L. Moore,B. W. Higman Pdf

A collection of lectures delivered between 1987 and 1998. The book is divided into two sections: slavery and freedom, which features critical research on slavery and post-emancipation society, and gender.

Author : B. W. Higman
Publisher : University of the West Indies Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UVA:X004302060

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Montpelier, Jamaica by B. W. Higman Pdf

This detailed study of the life of a Jamaican plantation community during slavery and the post-emancipation period is based on archaeological investigations as well as more traditional documentary sources. The family and household structure of the slave population is analysed and linked to the physical layout of the village. A comprehensive picture of the material culture of the plantation workers is facilitated by sources, and covers everything from foodways to clothing, ornament and architecture.

Author : Michael Craton
Publisher : Kingston, Jamaica : Ian Randle Publishers
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Enslaved persons
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020520776

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Empire, Enslavement, and Freedom in the Caribbean by Michael Craton Pdf

Author : Lydia Wilson Marshall
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780809333974

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The Archaeology of Slavery by Lydia Wilson Marshall Pdf

Develops an interregional and cross-temporal framework for the interpretation of slavery. Essays cover the potential material representations of slavery, slave owners' strategies of coercion and enslaved people's methods of resisting this coercion, and the legacies of slavery as confronted by formerly enslaved people and their descendants.

Author : B. W. Higman
Publisher : University of the West Indies Press
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9766400105

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Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807-1834 by B. W. Higman Pdf

Reprint of work that originally appeared in 1984. Excellent and thorough treatment of major demographic aspects of British Caribbean slavery from abolition of slave trade to slave emancipation. Draws heavily on extensive data available from slave registration returns for various islands to provide comparative perspective of nature of slave life. Excellent tables and figures. Essential for serious scholars of the region. -Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58

Author : Kathleen E. A. Monteith,Glen Richards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 976640108X

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Jamaica in Slavery and Freedom by Kathleen E. A. Monteith,Glen Richards Pdf

"Jamaica's rich history has been the subject of many books, articles and papers. This collection of eighteen original essays considers aspects of Jamaican history not covered in more general histories of the island, and illluminates more recent developments in Jamaican and West Indian history." "Unique in its interdisciplinary approach, the collection emphasizes the relevance of history to everyday life and the development of a national identity, culture and economy. The essays are organized in three sections: Historiography and Sources; Society, Culture and Heritage; and Economy, Labour and Politics, with contributions from scholars in the Departments of History, Literatures in English and Political Sciences and from the Main Library, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica." -- Book Jacket.

Author : Douglas V. Armstrong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0813025842

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Creole Transformation from Slavery to Freedom by Douglas V. Armstrong Pdf

An exploration of life on the Virgin Islands in a distinctive black community that gained its freedom from slavery more than 40 years prior to emancipation in 1848. Douglas Armstrong seeks to expand our perspective on the diversity and consequences of the African Diaspora.

Author : Theresa A. Singleton
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813059730

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Slavery behind the Wall by Theresa A. Singleton Pdf

"A significant contribution in Caribbean archaeology. Singleton weaves archaeological and documentary evidence into a compelling narrative of the lives of the enslaved at Santa Ana de Biajacas."--Patricia Samford, author of Subfloor Pits and the Archaeology of Slavery in Colonial Virginia "Presents results of the first historical archaeology in Cuba by an American archaeologist since the 1950s revolution. Singleton's extensive historical research provides rich context for this and future archaeological investigations, and the entire body of her pioneering research provides comparative material for other studies of African American life and institutional slavery in the Caribbean and the Americas."--Leland Ferguson, author of God's Fields: Landscape, Religion, and Race in Moravian Wachovia "Singleton's enlightening findings on plantation slavery life will undoubtedly constitute a reference point for future studies on Afro-Cuban archaeology."--Manuel Barcia, author of The Great African Slave Revolt of 1825: Cuba and the Fight for Freedom in Matanzas Cuba had the largest slave society of the Spanish colonial empire. At Santa Ana de Biajacas the plantation owner sequestered slaves behind a massive masonry wall. In the first archaeological investigation of a Cuban plantation by an English speaker, Theresa Singleton explores how elite Cuban planters used the built environment to impose a hierarchical social order upon slave laborers. Behind the wall, slaves reclaimed the space as their own, forming communities, building their own houses, celebrating, gambling, and even harboring slave runaways. What emerged there is not just an identity distinct from other North American and Caribbean plantations, but a unique slave culture that thrived despite a spartan lifestyle. Singleton's study provides insight into the larger historical context of the African diaspora, global patterns of enslavement, and the development of Cuba as an integral member of the larger Atlantic World.

Author : Theresa A Singleton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315419039

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The Archaeology of Slavery and Plantation Life by Theresa A Singleton Pdf

This volume represented a compilation of interdisciplinary research being done throughout the American South and the Caribbean by historians, archaeologists, architects, anthropologists, and other scholars on the topic of slavery and plantations. It synthesizes materials known through the 1980s and reports on key sites of excavation and survey in the Carolinas, Barbados, Louisiana and other locations. Contributors include many of the leading figures in historical archaeology.

Author : O. Nigel Bolland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173006137931

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Struggles for Freedom by O. Nigel Bolland Pdf