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Archaeologies of Slavery and Freedom in the Caribbean : Exploring the Spaces in Between.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries:  Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen SeriesPublisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (373 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781683400134
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Archaeologies of Slavery and Freedom in the CaribbeanDDC classification:
  • 306.3/6209729
LOC classification:
  • HT1071 .A73 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- ARCHAEOLOGIES OF SLAVERY AND FREEDOM IN THE CARIBBEAN -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- 1. Introduction: The Caribbean Spaces in Between -- PART 1: THE SPACES BETWEEN AND WITHIN -- 2. The Role of Caves and Gullies in Escape, Mobility, and the Creation of Community Networks among Enslaved Peoples of Barbados -- 3. "Poor Whites" on the Peripheries: "Poor White" and Afro-Barbadian Interaction on the Plantation -- 4. Provisioning and Marketing: Surplus and Access on Jamaican Sugar Estates -- 5. Life beyond the Village: Field Houses and Liminal Space on a Jamaican Coffee Plantation -- 6. Beyond Sugar: Plantation Landscapes and the Rise of a Free Black Population on St. Lucia -- 7. Surveying a Long-Term Settlement on Potato Hill, Montserrat -- PART 2: TRANSITION AND POSTEMANCIPATION SPACES -- 8. Dimensions of Space and Identity in an Emancipation-Era Village: Analysis of Material Culture and Site Abandonment at Morgan's Village, Nevis, West Indies -- 9. African Moravian Burial Sites on St. John and Barbados: A Comparison of Spaces within Lived Experiences and Social Transformations from Slavery to Freedom -- 10. The Archaeology of a Postemancipation Smallholder in the British Virgin Islands -- 11. Postemancipation Shifts: Land, Labor, and Freedom on the Bois Cotlette Estate, Dominica, after 1838 -- 12. Military Material Life in the British Caribbean: Historical Archaeology of Fort Rocky, Kingston Harbor, Jamaica (ca. 1880-1945) -- 13. Double Consciousness and an African American Enclave: Being Black and American on Hispañiola -- 14. Conclusion: Minding the Gaps in the Diasporic Web -- List of Contributors -- Index.
Summary: Caribbean plantations and the forces that shaped them--slavery, sugar, capitalism, and the tropical, sometimes deadly environment--have been studied extensively. This volume turns the focus to the places and times where the rules of the plantation system did not always apply, including the interstitial spaces that linked enslaved Africans with their neighbors at other plantations.
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Cover -- ARCHAEOLOGIES OF SLAVERY AND FREEDOM IN THE CARIBBEAN -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- 1. Introduction: The Caribbean Spaces in Between -- PART 1: THE SPACES BETWEEN AND WITHIN -- 2. The Role of Caves and Gullies in Escape, Mobility, and the Creation of Community Networks among Enslaved Peoples of Barbados -- 3. "Poor Whites" on the Peripheries: "Poor White" and Afro-Barbadian Interaction on the Plantation -- 4. Provisioning and Marketing: Surplus and Access on Jamaican Sugar Estates -- 5. Life beyond the Village: Field Houses and Liminal Space on a Jamaican Coffee Plantation -- 6. Beyond Sugar: Plantation Landscapes and the Rise of a Free Black Population on St. Lucia -- 7. Surveying a Long-Term Settlement on Potato Hill, Montserrat -- PART 2: TRANSITION AND POSTEMANCIPATION SPACES -- 8. Dimensions of Space and Identity in an Emancipation-Era Village: Analysis of Material Culture and Site Abandonment at Morgan's Village, Nevis, West Indies -- 9. African Moravian Burial Sites on St. John and Barbados: A Comparison of Spaces within Lived Experiences and Social Transformations from Slavery to Freedom -- 10. The Archaeology of a Postemancipation Smallholder in the British Virgin Islands -- 11. Postemancipation Shifts: Land, Labor, and Freedom on the Bois Cotlette Estate, Dominica, after 1838 -- 12. Military Material Life in the British Caribbean: Historical Archaeology of Fort Rocky, Kingston Harbor, Jamaica (ca. 1880-1945) -- 13. Double Consciousness and an African American Enclave: Being Black and American on Hispañiola -- 14. Conclusion: Minding the Gaps in the Diasporic Web -- List of Contributors -- Index.

Caribbean plantations and the forces that shaped them--slavery, sugar, capitalism, and the tropical, sometimes deadly environment--have been studied extensively. This volume turns the focus to the places and times where the rules of the plantation system did not always apply, including the interstitial spaces that linked enslaved Africans with their neighbors at other plantations.

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