A Desolate Place for a Defiant People
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African Americans
alienation
anthropology
archaeological patterns
archaeological sites
archaeology
artifact reuse
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canals
capitalism
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commodities
community defense
community transformation
consumers
cross canal site
Daniel Sayers
diaspora communities
enslaved laborers
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exile
federal ownership
fetishism
Great Dismal Swamp
indigenous Americans
islands
Karl Marx
laborers
landscape
maroonage
maroons
material culture
modern enslavement
modes of production
nameless site
Praxis
racialization
self-subsistence
Society for Historical Archaeology
swamp communities
swamp interior
uneven geographical development
Product details
- ISBN 9780813060187
- Weight: 490g
- Dimensions: 154 x 231mm
- Publication Date: 31 Dec 2014
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In the 250 years before the Civil War, the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina was a brutal landscape—2,000 square miles of undeveloped and unforgiving wetlands, peat bogs, impenetrable foliage, and dangerous creatures. It was also a protective refuge for marginalized communities, including Native Americans, African-American maroons, free African Americans, and outcast Europeans. Here they created their own way of life, free of the exploitation and alienation they had escaped.
In the first thorough examination of this vital site, Daniel Sayers examines the area’s archaeological record, exposing and unraveling the complex social and economic systems developed by these defiant communities that thrived on the periphery. He develops an analytical framework based on the complex interplay between alienation, diasporic exile, uneven geographical development, and modes of production to argue that colonialism and slavery inevitably created sustained critiques of American capitalism.
Published in cooperation with the Society for Historical Archaeology.
In the first thorough examination of this vital site, Daniel Sayers examines the area’s archaeological record, exposing and unraveling the complex social and economic systems developed by these defiant communities that thrived on the periphery. He develops an analytical framework based on the complex interplay between alienation, diasporic exile, uneven geographical development, and modes of production to argue that colonialism and slavery inevitably created sustained critiques of American capitalism.
Published in cooperation with the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Daniel Sayers is assistant professor of anthropology at American University, USA.
