Research Catalog

Title

Archaeology of domestic landscapes of the enslaved in the Caribbean / edited by James A. Delle and Elizabeth C. Clay.

Publication

• Gainesville, FL : University of Florida Press, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Delle, James A.
• Clay, Elizabeth C.

Description

x, 281 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Summary

This volume examines, through the analysis of archaeological evidence collected from a wide variety of sites across the region, the diversity of living environments that the enslaved inhabited in the colonial Caribbean. This book brings together case studies of Caribbean slave settlements as a means of exposing the diversity of people and practices in these various settings across the British, French, Dutch, and Danish colonies in both the Greater and Lesser Antilles as well as the Bahamian archipelago.

Series Statement

Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen series

Uniform Title

Ripley P. Bullen series.

Subjects

• Slavery
• History
• Slavery > Caribbean Area > History
• Caribbean Area > History
• Archaeology and history > Caribbean Area
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Caribbean Area

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-273) and index.

Contents

1. Household, village, and landscape: the built environments of slavery in the Caribbean / Elizabeth C. Clay and James A. Delle -- 2. An examination of housing for enslaved and freed Blacks on sugar and cotton plantations on the southeast peninsula of St. Kitts / Todd M. Ahlman -- 3. The present past: the design legacy of laborer's housing in the landscape of vernacular architecture on nevis / Marco Meniketti -- 4. Building a better village?: transformations in French West Indian slave village architecture from the ancien régime to emancipation / Kenneth G. Kelly -- 5. Asymmetric architectures of enslaved people in Jamaica: an archaeological study of household variation at Good Hope Estate / Hayden F. Bassett -- 6. Variation within the village: housing enslaved laborers on coffee plantations in Jamaica / James A. Delle and Kristen R. Fellows -- 7. Humanitarian reform, model cottages, and the habitational landscape of slavery on a Bahama island / Allan D. Meyers -- 8. Landscape and labor on the periphery: built environments of slavery in nineteenth-century French Guiana / Elizabeth C. Clay -- 9. Royal enslaved Afro-Caribbeans in Christiansted: exploring the archaeology of enslavement in an urban Caribbean city / Alicia Odewale and Meredith D. Hardy -- 10. Households and dwelling practices at the cabrits garrison laborer village / Zachary J.M. Beier -- 11. Built environment: slavery, materiality, and useable pasts / Mark W. Hauser.

Call Number

JFE 20-655

ISBN

• 9781683400912
• 1683400917

LCCN

2018061105

OCLC

1080248034

Title

Archaeology of domestic landscapes of the enslaved in the Caribbean / edited by James A. Delle and Elizabeth C. Clay.

Publisher

Gainesville, FL : University of Florida Press, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen series

Ripley P. Bullen series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-273) and index.

Added Author

Delle, James A., editor.

Clay, Elizabeth C., editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 20-655