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The Archaeology of Slavery : A Comparative Approach to Captivity and Coercion.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (412 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780809333981
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Archaeology of SlaveryDDC classification:
  • 975.0049
LOC classification:
  • HT861
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1. Introduction: The Comparative Archaeology of Slavery -- 2. Commodities or Gifts? Captive/Slaves in Small-Scale Societies -- 3. Bioarchaeological Case Studies of Slavery, Captivity, and Other Forms of Exploitation -- 4. The Nature of Marginality: Castle Slaves and the Atlantic Trade at San Domingo, the Gambia -- 5. Nineteenth-Century Built Landscape of Plantation Slavery in Comparative Perspective -- 6. "The Landscape Cannot Be Said to Be Really Perfect": A Comparative Investigation of Plantation Spatial Organization on Two British Colonial Sugar Estates -- 7. Blind Spots in Empire: Plantation Landscapes in Early Colonial Dominica (1763-1807) -- 8. Retentions, Adaptations, and the Need for Social Control within African and African American Communities across the Southern United States from 1770 to 1930 -- 9. Cities, Slavery, and Rural Ambivalence in Precolonial Dahomey -- 10. Slavery Matters and Materiality: Atlantic Items, Political Processes, and the Collapse of the Hueda Kingdom, Benin, West Africa -- 11. The Impact of Slavery on the East African Political Economy and Gender Relationships -- 12. Maroon Archaeological Research in Mauritius and Its Possible Implications in a Global Context -- 13. Marronage and the Politics of Memory: Fugitive Slaves, Interaction, and Integration in Nineteenth-Century Kenya -- 14. The Indian Slave Trade and Catawba History -- 15. Roman Columbarium Tombs and Slave Identities -- 16. Visible People, Invisible Slavery: Plantation Archaeology in East Africa -- 17. A Global Perspective on Maroon Archaeology in Brazil -- 18. Fighting Despair: Challenges of a Comparative, Global Framework for Slavery Studies -- Contributors -- Index.
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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1. Introduction: The Comparative Archaeology of Slavery -- 2. Commodities or Gifts? Captive/Slaves in Small-Scale Societies -- 3. Bioarchaeological Case Studies of Slavery, Captivity, and Other Forms of Exploitation -- 4. The Nature of Marginality: Castle Slaves and the Atlantic Trade at San Domingo, the Gambia -- 5. Nineteenth-Century Built Landscape of Plantation Slavery in Comparative Perspective -- 6. "The Landscape Cannot Be Said to Be Really Perfect": A Comparative Investigation of Plantation Spatial Organization on Two British Colonial Sugar Estates -- 7. Blind Spots in Empire: Plantation Landscapes in Early Colonial Dominica (1763-1807) -- 8. Retentions, Adaptations, and the Need for Social Control within African and African American Communities across the Southern United States from 1770 to 1930 -- 9. Cities, Slavery, and Rural Ambivalence in Precolonial Dahomey -- 10. Slavery Matters and Materiality: Atlantic Items, Political Processes, and the Collapse of the Hueda Kingdom, Benin, West Africa -- 11. The Impact of Slavery on the East African Political Economy and Gender Relationships -- 12. Maroon Archaeological Research in Mauritius and Its Possible Implications in a Global Context -- 13. Marronage and the Politics of Memory: Fugitive Slaves, Interaction, and Integration in Nineteenth-Century Kenya -- 14. The Indian Slave Trade and Catawba History -- 15. Roman Columbarium Tombs and Slave Identities -- 16. Visible People, Invisible Slavery: Plantation Archaeology in East Africa -- 17. A Global Perspective on Maroon Archaeology in Brazil -- 18. Fighting Despair: Challenges of a Comparative, Global Framework for Slavery Studies -- Contributors -- Index.

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