Archaeology of Domestic Landscapes of the Enslaved in the Caribbean
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Archaeology of Domestic Landscapes of the Enslaved in the Caribbean

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Archaeology of Domestic Landscapes of the Enslaved in the Caribbean

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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, and standing architecture, in addition to archaeological 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 the enslaved 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 laborer houses became a form of vernacular architecture still in use today. This volume expands our understanding of the wide range of enslaved experiences across British, French, Dutch, and Danish colonies. 


Contributors: Elizabeth C. Clay | James A. Delle | Todd M. Ahlman | Marco Meniketti | Kenneth Kelly | Hayden Bassett | James A. Delle | Kristen R. Fellows | Allan D. Meyers | Elizabeth C. Clay | Alicia Odewale | Meredith D. Hardy | Zachary J. M. Beier | Mark W. Hauser


 A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series Publication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Figures
  6. List of Tables
  7. 1. Household, Village, and Landscape: The Built Environments of Slavery in the Caribbean
  8. 2. An Examination of Housing for Enslaved and Free Blacks on Sugar and Cotton Plantations on the Southeast Peninsula of St. Kitts
  9. 3. The Present Past: The Design Legacy of Laborers’ Housing in the Landscape of Vernacular Architecture on Nevis
  10. 4. Building a Better Village? Transformations in French West Indian Slave Village Architecture from the Ancien Régime to Emancipation
  11. 5. Asymmetric Architectures of Enslaved People in Jamaica: An Archaeological Study of Household Variation at Good Hope Estate
  12. 6. Variation within the Village: Housing Enslaved Laborers on Coffee Plantations in Jamaica
  13. 7. Humanitarian Reform, Model Cottages, and the Habitational Landscape of Slavery on a Bahama Island
  14. 8. Landscape and Labor on the Periphery: Built Environments of Slavery in Nineteenth-Century French Guiana
  15. 9. Royal Enslaved Afro-Caribbeans in Christiansted: Exploring the Archaeology of Enslavement in a Caribbean City
  16. 10. Households and Dwelling Practices at the Cabrits Garrison Laborer Village
  17. 11. Built Environments: Slavery, Materiality, and Usable Pasts
  18. References
  19. List of Contributors
  20. Index