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Slavery before Race - Europeans, Africans, and Indians at Long Island's Sylvester Manor Plantation, 1651-1884 (Paperback)
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Slavery before Race - Europeans, Africans, and Indians at Long Island's Sylvester Manor Plantation, 1651-1884 (Paperback)
Series: Early American Places
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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 Hayes draws on years of fieldwork on
Shelter Island's Sylvester Manor to demonstrate how racial identity
was constructed and lived before plantation slavery was racialized
by the legal codification of races. Using the historic Sylvester
Manor Plantation site turned archaeological dig as a case study,
Hayes draws on artifacts and extensive archival material to present
a rare picture of northern slavery on one of the North's first
plantations. The Manor was built in the mid-17th century by British
settler Nathaniel Sylvester, whose family owned Shelter Island
until the early 18th century and whose descendants still reside in
the Manor House. There, as Hayes demonstrates, white settlers,
enslaved Africans, and Native Americans worked side by side. While
each group played distinct roles on the Manor and in the larger
plantation economy of which Shelter Island was part, their close
collaboration and cohabitation was essential for the Sylvester
family's economic and political power in the Atlantic Northeast.
Through the lens of social memory and forgetting, this study
addresses the significance of Sylvester Manor's plantation history
to American attitudes about diversity, Indian land politics,
slavery and Jim Crow, in tension with idealized visions of white
colonial community.
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