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The limits of tyranny : archaeological perspectives on the struggle against new world slavery / edited by James A. Delle.
Penn Museum Library HT1050 .L56 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--America--History.
- Enslaved persons.
- Slave rebellions--America--History.
- Slave rebellions.
- Antislavery movements--America--History.
- Antislavery movements.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation.
- History.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--British colonies.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--French colonies.
- America.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 268 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2015]
- Contents:
- Introduction : archaeology and the struggle against slavery / James A. Delle
- Pt.I The physical struggle : "Freedom began here" : a social archaeology of armed struggle at Christiana, Pennyslvania / James A. Delle
- Consequences of rebellion : the 1763 St. Jan Rebellion and the establishment of a Danish St. Croix / Holly Kathryn Norton
- Resistance and reform : landscapes at Green Castle Estate, Antigua / Samantha Rebovich Bardoe
- Pt.II The moral struggle : "Strike for freedom or die slaves!" David Ruggles and the free black struggle to end slavery / Linda Zigenbein
- "Equality of man before his creator" : Thaddeus Stevens and the struggle against slavery / James A. Delle, Mary Ann Levine
- Harriet Tubman's farmsteads in central New York : archaeological explorations relating to an American icon / Douglas V. Armstrong
- Pt.III Beyond the limits of tyrants : Scission communities and social defiance : marronage in the diaspporic great dismal swamp, 1660-1860 / Daniel O. Sayers
- Including maroon history on the Florida Gulf Coast : archaeology and the struggle for freedom on the early 19th-century Manatee River / Uzi Baram
- Taking a closer look at retention, rebellion, and resistance : the three R's of African-diaspora studies / Cheryl White.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781621900870
- 1621900878
- OCLC:
- 874901493
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