Handler,Jerome S. (Author), Lange,Frederick W. (Author), and Riordan,Robert V. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1978
Published:
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
368 p, Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. Barbados: Geography, Economy, Demography, and History; 3. The Archaeological Project: Methodology and Survey Summary; 4. Newton Plantation: History and the Slave Population; 5. Newton Plantation: Archaeological Investigations; 6. The Mortuary Patterns of Plantation Slaves; 7. The Ethnohistorical Approach to Slavery; Appendix A. Excavation Summary: Newton Cemetery; Appendix B. Clay Pipes from Newton Plantation Excavations Crawford H. Blakeman, Jr., and Robert V. Riordan; Appendix C. Classification and Description of Beads from Newton Cemetery; Appendix D. A Comparison of the Historical and Archaeological Populations at Newton Plantation; Notes; References; Index
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
353 p., Interspersing colonial history with her family's experience, Stuart explores the interconnected themes of settlement, sugar and slavery. In examining how these forces shaped her own family--its genealogy, intimate relationships, circumstances of birth, varying hues of skin--she illuminates how her family, among millions of others like it, in turn transformed the society in which they lived, and how that interchange continues to this day.
