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Archaeology of domestic landscapes of the enslaved in the Caribbean

Title
Archaeology of domestic landscapes of the enslaved in the Caribbean [electronic resource] / edited by James A. Delle and Elizabeth C. Clay.
Publication
Gainesville : University of Florida Press, 2019.

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Additional Authors
  • Delle, James A.
  • Clay, Elizabeth C.
Description
1 online resource (x, 281 pages) : illustrations, maps.
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
  • Archaeology of domestic landscapes of the enslaved in the Caribbean (Online)
  • Ripley P. Bullen series.
Subject
  • Slavery > Caribbean Area > History
  • Archaeology and history > Caribbean Area
  • Excavations (Archaeology) > Caribbean Area
  • Caribbean Area > History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
Household, village, and landscape: the built environments of slavery in the Caribbean / Elizabeth C. Clay & James A. Delle -- An examination of enslaved and freed African housing and plantations on St. Kitts? Southeast peninsula sugar and cotton plantations / Todd M. Ahlman -- The present past: the design legacy of laborer's housing in the landscape of vernacular architecture on nevis / Marco Meniketti -- Building a better village?: transformations in french West Indian slave village architecture from the ancien régime to emancipation / Kenneth Kelly -- Asymmetric architectures of enslaved people in Jamaica: an archaeological study of household variation at Good Hope Estate / Hayden Bassett -- Variation within the village: housing enslaved laborers on coffee plantations in Jamaica / James A. Delle and Kristen R. Fellows -- Humanitarian reform, model cottages, and the habitational landscape of slavery on a Bahama island / Allan D. Meyers -- Labor and landscape on the periphery: built environments of slavery in nineteenth century French Guiana / Elizabeth C. Clay -- Royal enslaved Africans in Christiansted: exploring the archaeology of enslavement in an urban Caribbean city / Alicia Odewale & Meredith D. Hardy -- Households and dwelling practices at the cabrits garrison laborer village / Zachary J. M. Beier -- Built environment: slavery, materiality, and useable pasts / Mark W. Hauser.
LCCN
2018061105
OCLC
ssj0002227451
Title
Archaeology of domestic landscapes of the enslaved in the Caribbean [electronic resource] / edited by James A. Delle and Elizabeth C. Clay.
Imprint
Gainesville : University of Florida Press, 2019.
Series
Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen series
Ripley P. Bullen series.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Delle, James A.
Clay, Elizabeth C.
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