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Archaeology in Dominica examines the everyday lives of enslaved and
free workers at Morne Patate, an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century
Caribbean plantation that produced sugar, coffee, and provisions.
Focusing on household archaeology, this volume helps document the
underrepresented history of slavery and colonialism on the edge of
the British Empire. Contributors discuss how enslaved and free
people were entangled in shifting economic and ecological systems
during the plantation's 200-year history, most notably the
introduction of sugarcane as an export commodity. Analyzing
historical records, the landscape geography of the plantation, and
material remains from the residences of laborers, the authors
synthesize extensive data from this site and compare it to that of
other excavations across the Eastern Caribbean. Using historical
archaeology to investigate the political ecology of Morne Patate
opens up a deeper understanding of the environmental legacies of
colonial empires, as well as the long-term impacts of plantation
agriculture on the Caribbean region and its people. A volume in the
Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series.
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