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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.
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.
Historical archeology studies once relied upon a binary view of
colonialism: colonizers and colonized, the colonial period and the
postcolonial period. The international contributors to this volume
scrutinize imperialism and expansionism through an alternative lens
that looks beyond simple dualities to explore the variously
gendered, racialized, and occupied peoples of a multitude of
faiths, desires, associations, and constraints. Colonialism is not
a phase in the chronology of a people but a continuous phenomenon
that spans the Old and New Worlds. Most important, the contributors
argue that its impacts - and, in some instances, even the same
processes set in place by the likes of Columbus - are ongoing.
Inciting a critical study of the lasting consequences of ancient
and modern colonialism on descendant communities, this wideranging
volume includes essays on Roman Britain, slavery in Brazil, and
contemporary Native Americans. In its efforts to define the scope
of colonialism and the comparability of its features, this
collection challenges the field to go beyond familiar geographical
and historical boundaries and draws attention to unfolding
colonialfutures.
Historical archaeology studies once relied upon a binary view of
colonialism: colonizers and colonized, the colonial period and the
postcolonial period. The contributors to this volume scrutinize
imperialism and expansionism through an alternative lens that
rejects simple dualities and explores the variously gendered,
racialized, and occupied peoples of a multitude of faiths, desires,
associations, and constraints. Colonialism is not a phase in the
chronology of a people but a continuous phenomenon that spans the
Old and New Worlds. Most important, the contributors argue that its
impacts-and, in some instances, even the same processes set in
place by the likes of Columbus-are ongoing.Inciting a critical
examination of the lasting consequences of ancient and modern
colonialism on descendant communities, this wide-ranging volume
includes essays on Roman Britain, slavery in Brazil, and
contemporary Native Americans. In its efforts to define the scope
of colonialism and the comparability of its features, this
collection challenges the field to go beyond familiar geographical
and historical boundaries and draws attention to unfolding colonial
futures.
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