Archaeology of Domestic Landscapes of the Enslaved in the Caribbean - (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen) (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This volume examines, through the analysis of archaeological evidence collected from a wide variety of sites across the region, the diversity of living environments that the enslaved inhabited in the colonial Caribbean. This book brings together case studies of Caribbean slave settlements as a means of exposing the diversity of people and practices in these various settings across the British, French, Dutch, and Danish colonies in both the Greater and Lesser Antilles as well as the Bahamian archipelago.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series
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