Archaeology below the cliff : race, class, and Redlegs in Barbadian sugar society / Matthew C. Reilly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reilly, Matthew C. (Matthew Connor), 1986- author.

Series:

Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory.

Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poor white people--Barbados--History.

Poor white people.

Indentured servants--Barbados--History.

Indentured servants.

Plantation life--Barbados--History--Case studies.

Plantation life.

Sugar plantations--Barbados--History.

Sugar plantations.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Barbados.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Irish--Barbados--History.

Irish.

Below Cliff Site (Barbados).

Barbados--Race relations.

Barbados.

Barbados--Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

The University of Alabama Press 2019

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, [2019]

Summary:

First book-length archaeological study of a nonelite white population on a Caribbean plantation Archaeology below the Cliff: Race, Class, and Redlegs in Barbadian Sugar Society is the first archaeological study of the poor whites of Barbados, the descendants of seventeenth-century European indentured servants and small farmers.

Contents:

Archaeologies of plantation modernity

Redlegs on the plantation landscape

Below Cliff : excavating and engaging with a plantation community

Socioeconomic (in)activity

"A numerous race of mulattoes" : (de)constructing racial barriers

Alternative modernities Below the Cliff.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8173-9242-4

OCLC:

1121138924