Archaeologies of slavery and freedom in the Caribbean : exploring the spaces in between / edited by Lynsey A. Bates, John M. Chenoweth, and James A. Delle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bates, Lynsey A., editor.

Chenoweth, John M., editor.

Delle, James A., editor.

Series:

Ripley P. Bullen series.

Ripley P. Bullen Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Caribbean Area--History.

Slavery.

Enslaved persons--Emancipation--Caribbean Area.

Enslaved persons.

Caribbean Area--History.

Caribbean Area.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (373 pages) : illustrations, photographs, maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, Florida : University of Florida Press, 2016.

Summary:

While the patterns of habitation and development are similar throughout the Caribbean, there was also a great deal of diversity. The authors in this volume use innovative techniques and perspectives to reveal the stories of places and times where the usual rules did not always apply.

Contents:

Introduction: the Caribbean spaces in between / John M. Chenoweth, James A. Delle, and Lynsey A. Bates

Part 1: The spaces between and within

The role of caves and gullies in escape, mobility, and the creation of community networks among enslaved peoples of Barbados / Frederick H. Smith and Hayden F. Bassett

"Poor whites" on the peripheries: "poor white" and Afro-Barbadian interaction on the plantation / Matthew C. Reilly

Provisioning and marketing: surplus and access on Jamaican sugar estates / Lynsey A. Bates

Life beyond the village: field houses and liminal space on a Jamaican coffee plantation / James A. Delle

Beyond sugar: plantation landscapes and the rise of a free black population on St. Lucia / Jane I. Seiter

Surveying a long-term settlement on Potato Hill, Montserrat / Krysta Ryzewski and John F. Cherry

Part 2: Transition and postemancipation spaces

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

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

The archaeology of a postemancipation smallholder in the British Virgin Islands / John M. Chenoweth

Postemancipation shifts: land, labor, and freedom on the Bois Cotlette Estate, Dominica, after 1838 / Khadene K. Harris

Military material life in the British Caribbean: historical archaeology of Fort Rocky, Kingston Harbor Jamaica (ca. 1880-1945) / Stephan T. Lenik and Zachary J. M. Beier

Double consciousness and an African American enclave: being black and American on Hispañiola / Kristen R. Fellows

Conclusion: minding the gaps in the diasporic web / Laurie A. Wilkie.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-68340-071-2

1-68340-026-7

1-68340-013-5

OCLC:

960457698