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James Delle has solved a number of problems in Caribbean
archaeology with An Archaeology of Social Space. He deals with most
of the problems by using historical archaeology, and clearly
implicates Ameri canist prehistorians. Although this book is about
coffee plantations in the Blue Mountains area of Jamaica, it is
actually about the whole Caribbean. Just as it is about all
archaeology, not only historical archaeology, it is also a book
about colonialism and national inde pendence and how these two
enormous events happened in the context of eighteenth and
nineteenth century capitalism. The first issue raised appears to be
an academic topic that has come to be known as landscape
archaeology. Landscape archaeology considers the planned spaces
around living places. The topic is big, comprehensive, and new
within historical archaeology. Its fundamen tal insight is that in
the early modern and modern worlds everything within view could be
made into money. Seeing occurs in space and from 1450, or a little
before, everything that could be seen could, potentially, be
measured. The measuring-and the accompanying culture of record ing
called a scriptural economy-became a way of controlling people in
space, for a profit. Dr. Delle thus explores maps, local
philosophies of settlement, town dwelling, housing, and the actual
condition of plantations and their buildings now, so as to describe
coffee-Jamaica from 1790-1860.
James Delle has solved a number of problems in Caribbean
archaeology with An Archaeology of Social Space. He deals with most
of the problems by using historical archaeology, and clearly
implicates Ameri canist prehistorians. Although this book is about
coffee plantations in the Blue Mountains area of Jamaica, it is
actually about the whole Caribbean. Just as it is about all
archaeology, not only historical archaeology, it is also a book
about colonialism and national inde pendence and how these two
enormous events happened in the context of eighteenth and
nineteenth century capitalism. The first issue raised appears to be
an academic topic that has come to be known as landscape
archaeology. Landscape archaeology considers the planned spaces
around living places. The topic is big, comprehensive, and new
within historical archaeology. Its fundamen tal insight is that in
the early modern and modern worlds everything within view could be
made into money. Seeing occurs in space and from 1450, or a little
before, everything that could be seen could, potentially, be
measured. The measuring-and the accompanying culture of record ing
called a scriptural economy-became a way of controlling people in
space, for a profit. Dr. Delle thus explores maps, local
philosophies of settlement, town dwelling, housing, and the actual
condition of plantations and their buildings now, so as to describe
coffee-Jamaica from 1790-1860."
Investigating what life was like for African Americans north of the
Mason-Dixon Line during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries,
James Delle presents the first overview of archaeological research
on the topic in this book, debunking the notion that the "free"
states of the Northeast truly offered freedom and safety for
African Americans. Excavations at cities including New York and
Philadelphia reveal that slavery was a crucial part of the
expansion of urban life as late as the 1840s. The case studies in
this book also show that enslaved African-descended people
frequently staffed suburban manor houses and agricultural
plantations. Moreover, for free blacks, racist laws such as the
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 limited the experience of freedom in the
region. Delle explains how members of the African diaspora created
rural communities of their own and worked in active resistance
against the institution of slavery. Delle shows that archaeology
can challenge dominant historical narratives by recovering material
artifacts that express the agency of their makers and users, many
of whom were written out of the documentary record. Emphasizing
that race-based slavery began in the Northeast and persisted there
for nearly two centuries, this book corrects histories that have
been whitewashed and forgotten. A volume in the series the American
Experience in Archaeological Perspective, edited by Michael S.
Nassaney.
Caribbean plantations and the forces that shaped them-slavery,
sugar, capitalism, and the tropical, sometimes deadly
environment-have been studied extensively. This volume turns the
focus to the places and times where the rules of the plantation
system did not always apply, including the interstitial spaces that
linked enslaved Africans with their neighbors at other plantations.
The essays also explore the lives of "poor whites," Afro-descendant
members of military garrisons, and free people of color,
demonstrating that binary models of black slaves and white planters
do not fully encompass the diversity of identities before and after
Emancipation. Employing innovative research tools and integrating
data from Dominica, St. Lucia, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica,
Barbados, Nevis, Montserrat, and the British Virgin Islands, these
essays offer a deeper understanding of the complex world within and
beyond the sprawling sugar estates.
The Colonial Caribbean is an archaeological analysis of the
Jamaican plantation system at the turn of the nineteenth century.
Focused specifically on coffee plantation landscapes and framed by
Marxist theory, the analysis considers plantation landscapes using
a multiscalar approach to landscape archaeology. James A. Delle
considers spatial phenomena ranging from the diachronic settlement
pattern of the island as a whole to the organization of individual
house and yard areas located within the villages of enslaved
workers. Delle argues that a Marxist approach to landscape
archaeology provides a powerful theoretical framework to understand
how the built environment played a direct role in the negotiation
of social relations in the colonial Caribbean.
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. 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.
The Colonial Caribbean is an archaeological analysis of the
Jamaican plantation system at the turn of the nineteenth century.
Focused specifically on coffee plantation landscapes and framed by
Marxist theory, the analysis considers plantation landscapes using
a multiscalar approach to landscape archaeology. James A. Delle
considers spatial phenomena ranging from the diachronic settlement
pattern of the island as a whole to the organization of individual
house and yard areas located within the villages of enslaved
workers. Delle argues that a Marxist approach to landscape
archaeology provides a powerful theoretical framework to understand
how the built environment played a direct role in the negotiation
of social relations in the colonial Caribbean.
A 2018 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title New scholarship provides
insights into the archaeology and cultural history of African
American life from a collection of sites in the Mid-Atlantic This
groundbreaking volume explores the archaeology of African American
life and cultures in the Upper Mid-Atlantic region, using sites
dating from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. Sites
in Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York are all
examined, highlighting the potential for historical archaeology to
illuminate the often overlooked contributions and experiences of
the region's free and enslaved African American settlers.
Archaeologies of African American Life in the Upper Mid-Atlantic
brings together cutting-edge scholarship from both emerging and
established scholars. Analyzing the research through sophisticated
theoretical lenses and employing up-to-date methodologies, the
essays reveal the diverse ways in which African Americans reacted
to and resisted the challenges posed by life in a borderland
between the North and South through the transition from slavery to
freedom. In addition to extensive archival research, contributors
synthesize the material finds of archaeological work in slave
quarter sites, tenant farms, communities, and graveyards. Editors
Michael J. Gall and Richard F. Veit have gathered new and nuanced
perspectives on the important role free and enslaved African
Americans played in the region's cultural history. This collection
provides scholars of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions,
African American studies, material culture studies, religious
studies, slavery, the African diaspora, and historical
archaeologists with a well-balanced array of rural archaeological
sites that represent cultural traditions and developments among
African Americans in the region. Collectively, these sites
illustrate African Americans' formation of fluid cultural and
racial identities, communities, religious traditions, and modes of
navigating complex cultural landscapes in the region under harsh
and disenfranchising circumstances.
The long history of slavery in the Americas has left a wealth of
archaeological evidence from excavations of southern and Caribbean
plantations. These excavations have largely informed our ideas of
African slavery, but, more recently, scholars have also focused on
northern slave sites and the various degrees of slavery pertaining
not only to Africans but to Native Americans and even European
immigrants as well. The Limits of Tyranny brings together nine
essays that illuminate the struggles of slaves against the
structure of inequality found throughout the Americas in the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These essays use the concept
of struggle to explore the archaeological dimensions of various
sites in the Caribbean and the American South and Northeast. The
actions of the enslaved, both collectively and as individuals,
altered or eliminated the social forces that oppressed them. The
contributors discuss the physical struggle through slave uprisings
and organized rebellions and the moral struggle through historic
laws and ethical behavior common in the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries. They also define the limits of oppression and use the
material evidence associated with each site to determine the
lengths to which slaves would go to fight their enslavement. The
Limits of Tyranny advances the study of the African diaspora and
reconsiders the African American experience in terms of dominance
and resistance. This volume will appeal to any archaeologist
looking to move beyond the common discourse on slavery and assess
more closely the African struggle against tyranny.
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MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 As a source of colonial wealth and a
crucible for global culture, Jamaica has had a profound impact on
the formation of the modern world system. From the island's
economic and military importance to the colonial empires it has
hosted and the multitude of ways in which diverse people from
varied parts of the world have coexisted in and reacted against
systems of inequality, Jamaica has long been a major focus of
archaeological studies of the colonial period. This volume
assembles for the first time the results of nearly three decades of
historical archaeology in Jamaica. Scholars present research on
maritime and terrestrial archaeological sites, addressing issues
such as: the early Spanish period at Seville la Nueva; the
development of the first major British settlement at Port Royal;
the complexities of the sugar and coffee plantation system, and the
conditions prior to, and following, the abolition of slavery in
Jamaica. The everyday life of African Jamaican people is examined
by focusing on the development of Jamaica's internal marketing
system, consumer behavior among enslaved people, iron-working and
ceramic-making traditions, and the development of a sovereign
Maroon society at Nanny Town. "Out of Many, One People" paints a
complex and fascinating picture of life in colonial Jamaica, and
demonstrates how archaeology has contributed to heritage
preservation on the island.
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, architectural features, and
other 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 slaves
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 labor houses became a form of
vernacular architecture still in use today. This volume expands our
understanding of the wide range of slave experiences across
British, French, Dutch, and Danish colonies.
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