Archaeologies of Slavery and Freedom in the Caribbean: Exploring the Spaces in Between
Archaeologies of Slavery and Freedom in the Caribbean: Exploring the Spaces in Between
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Abstract
All parts of the Caribbean were shaped by similar forces, including race-based chattel slavery, sugar, capitalism, and the tropical and sometimes deadly natural environment. Within these commonalities, however, is also a great deal of diversity. Large sugar plantations populated by hundreds of enslaved Africans rightfully receive a great deal of attention from archaeologists, historians, and the public. The authors in this volume, however, use innovative techniques and perspectives to reveal the stories of places and times where the rules of this system did not always apply. Collectively, the chapters focus on the spaces in-between, alternate views of plantation landscapes, and the complex dynamics at play in the days following slavery. The authors assess these threads through the analysis of lesser known contexts, such as Dominica, St. Lucia, and the Dominican Republic, and the reexamination of more familiar places, like Jamaica and Barbados. Despite grueling work regimes, and the social and economic restrictions of slavery, people held in bondage carved out places at the margins of plantation societies. In similar fashion, the lives of poor whites, soldiers, and free people of color demonstrate that binary models of black slaves and white planters do not fully encompass the diverse landscape of Caribbean identities before and after Emancipation. The studies in this volume employ innovative research tools to integrate data from a variety of historical and archaeological sources to better understand these alternate stories within and beyond the sprawling sugar estates.
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Introduction: The Caribbean Spaces in Between
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1 The Spaces Between and Within
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The Role of Caves and Gullies in Escape, Mobility, and the Creation of Community Networks among Enslaved Peoples of Barbados
Frederick H. Smith andHayden F. Bassett
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“Poor Whites” on the Peripheries: “Poor White” and Afro-Barbadian Interaction on the Plantation
Matthew C. Reilly
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Provisioning and Marketing: Surplus and Access on Jamaican Sugar Estates
Lynsey A. Bates
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Life beyond the Village: Field Houses and Liminal Space on a Jamaican Coffee Plantation
James A. Delle
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Beyond Sugar: Plantation Landscapes and the Rise of a Free Black Population on St. Lucia
Jane I. Seiter
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Surveying a Long-Term Settlement on Potato Hill, Montserrat
Krysta Ryzewski andJohn F. Cherry
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The Role of Caves and Gullies in Escape, Mobility, and the Creation of Community Networks among Enslaved Peoples of Barbados
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2 Transition and Postemancipation Spaces
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Dimensions of Space and Identity in an Emancipation-Era Village: Analysis of Material Culture and Site Abandonment at Morgan’s Village, Nevis, West Indies
Marco Meniketti
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African Moravian Burial Sites on St. John and Barbados: A Comparison of Spaces within Lived Experiences and Social Transformations from Slavery to Freedom
Helen C. Blouet
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The Archaeology of a Postemancipation Smallholder in the British Virgin Islands
John M. Chenoweth
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Postemancipation Shifts: Land, Labor, and Freedom on the Bois Cotlette Estate, Dominica, after 1838
Khadene K. Harris
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Military Material Life in the British Caribbean: Historical Archaeology of Fort Rocky, Kingston Harbor, Jamaica (ca. 1880–1945)
Stephan T. Lenik andZachary J. M. Beier
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Double Consciousness and an African American Enclave: Being Black and American on Hispañiola
Kristen R. Fellows
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Conclusion: Minding the Gaps in the Diasporic Web
Laurie A. Wilkie
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Dimensions of Space and Identity in an Emancipation-Era Village: Analysis of Material Culture and Site Abandonment at Morgan’s Village, Nevis, West Indies
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