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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
Contributor:
Delle, James A., editor.
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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