This book is a major reinterpretation of the economic and political transformation of Chesapeake society from 1680 to 1800. Building upon massive archival research in Maryland and Virginia, the author provides a comprehensive study of changing social relations--among both blacks…
This book is a major reinterpretation of the economic and political transformation of Chesapeake society from 1680 to 1800. Building upon massive archival research in Maryland and Virginia, the author provides a comprehensive study of changing social relations--among both blacks…
Peeling back the layers of plantation landscapes, Adams reveals connections between seemingly disparate features of modern culture, suggesting that they remain haunted by the force of the unnatural equation of people as property.
Prologue -- Tracing a racialized history -- Convergences -- Building and destroying -- Objects of interaction -- Forgetting to remember, remembering to forget -- Unimagining communities -- Epilogue.
The study of slavery in the Americas generally assumes a basic racial hierarchy: Africans or those of African descent are usually the slaves, and white people usually the slaveholders. In this unique interdisciplinary work of historical archaeology, anthropologist Katherine Haye…
The study of slavery in the Americas generally assumes a basic racial hierarchy: Africans or those of African descent were usually the slaves, and white people were usually the slaveholders. In this unique interdisciplinary work of historical archaeology, an anthropologist draws…
Caribbean Slavery in the Atlantic World
by Beckles, Hilary McD, Verene, Shepherd, Shepherd, Beckles
For abstracts see: Caribbean Abstracts, no. 11, 1999-2000 (2001); p. 103.
"In 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history, over 400 men, women, and children were sold by the Butler Plantation estates. This book is one of the first to analyze the operation of this auction and trace the lives of slaves before, during, and after their…
"In 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history, over 400 men, women, and children were sold by the Butler Plantation estates. This book is one of the first to analyze the operation of this auction and trace the lives of slaves before, during, and after their…
In 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history, over 400 men, women, and children were sold by the Butler Plantation estates. This book is one of the first to analyze the operation of this auction and trace the lives of slaves before, during, and after their …