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Slavery Behind the Wall - An Archaeology of a Cuban Coffee Plantation (Paperback)
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Slavery Behind the Wall - An Archaeology of a Cuban Coffee Plantation (Paperback)
Series: Cultural Heritage Studies
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Cuba had the largest slave society of the Spanish colonial empire
and thus the most plantations. The lack of archaeological data for
interpreting these sites is a glaring void in slavery and
plantation studies. Theresa Singleton helps to fill this gap with
the presentation of the first archaeological investigation of a
Cuban plantation written by an English speaker. At Santa Ana de
Biajacas, where the plantation owner sequestered slaves behind a
massive masonry wall, Singleton explores how elite Cuban planters
used the built environment to impose a hierarchical social order
upon slave laborers. Behind the wall, slaves reclaimed the space as
their own, forming communities, building their own houses,
celebrating, gambling, and even harboring slave runaways. What
emerged there is not just an identity distinct from other
NorthAmerican and Caribbean plantations, but a unique slave culture
that thrived despite a spartan lifestyle. Singleton's study
provides insight into the larger historical context of the African
diaspora, global patterns of enslavement, and the development of
Cuba as an integral member of the larger Atlantic World.
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