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:
361 p, The general purpose of this book is to give an analysis of the political sociology of the Caribbean islands and the seas around them from about 1750 to about 1900. The central argument is a familiar one, that plan tations (especially sugar plantations) created a slave society, which created racism in politics and daily life (see, e.g., Knight (1990 [1978]), pp. 3–192).;
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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.
On April 1, 1680, Sir Jonathan Atkins, governor of Barbados, sent a box full of statistical data about his island to the Plantation Office at Whitehall. This mass of data, filed away among the Colonial Office papers, constitutes the most comprehensive surviving census of any English colony in the 17th century.
