Archaeology of Domestic Landscapes of the Enslaved in the Caribbean
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Architecture
Atlantic slavery
Bahamas
British
built environment
Caribbean history
Caribbean slavery
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colonial studies
Colonialism
Construction
Danish
domestic architecture
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Excavations
French
Household Archaeology
Jamaica
landscape archaeology
Lesser Antilles
military compounds
resistance
slave housing
slave villages
spatial organization
systems of labor
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- ISBN 9781683400912
- Weight: 564g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 05 Nov 2019
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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While previous research on household archaeology in the colonial Caribbean has drawn heavily on artifact analysis, this volume provides the first in-depth examination of the architecture of slave housing during this period. It examines the considerations that went into constructing and inhabiting living spaces for the enslaved and reveals the diversity of people and practices in these settings.
Contributors present case studies using written descriptions, period illustrations, architectural features, and other evidence to illustrate the wide variety of built environments for enslaved populations in places including Jamaica, the Bahamas, and the islands of the Lesser Antilles. They investigate how slaves defined their social positions and identities through house, yard, and garden space; they explore what daily life was like for slaves on military compounds; they compare the spatial arrangements of slave villages on plantations based on type of labor; and they show how the style of traditional labor houses became a form of vernacular architecture still in use today.
This volume expands our understanding of the wide range of slave experiences across British, French, Dutch, and Danish colonies.
Contributors present case studies using written descriptions, period illustrations, architectural features, and other evidence to illustrate the wide variety of built environments for enslaved populations in places including Jamaica, the Bahamas, and the islands of the Lesser Antilles. They investigate how slaves defined their social positions and identities through house, yard, and garden space; they explore what daily life was like for slaves on military compounds; they compare the spatial arrangements of slave villages on plantations based on type of labor; and they show how the style of traditional labor houses became a form of vernacular architecture still in use today.
This volume expands our understanding of the wide range of slave experiences across British, French, Dutch, and Danish colonies.
James A. Delle, associate provost for academic administration at Millersville University, is the author of several books including The Archaeology of Northern Slavery and Freedom.
