The archaeology of antislavery resistance /

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Terrance Weik presents readers with case studies accumulated from the material record left by Maroons in the Americas, Black Seminoles, and the Underground Railroad. He specifically highlights the way archaeologists' contributions have added to our understanding of struggles for freedom from sl...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Weik, Terrance M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2012.
Series:American experience in archaeological perspective.
Subjects:
Antislavery movements > United States > History.
Slave rebellions > United States > History.
Fugitive slaves > United States > History.
Underground Railroad.
Ethnoarchaeology > United States.
Archaeology and history > United States.
African Americans > Antiquities.
Enslaved persons > United States > Antiquities.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > États-Unis > Histoire.
Archéologie et histoire > États-Unis.
Ethnoarchéologie > États-Unis.
Esclaves fugitifs > États-Unis > Histoire.
Révoltes d'esclaves > États-Unis > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
African Americans > Antiquities
Antislavery movements
Archaeology and history
Ethnoarchaeology
Fugitive slaves
Slave rebellions
Underground Railroad
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Historical highlights of antislavery resistance
  • Resistance, freedom, networks, and ethnogenesis in theory and practice
  • Archaeologies of self-liberated African communities
  • Antislavery collaborations and the Underground Railroad
  • Coalitions, community-building, and conflict in Seminole Territory
  • Conclusion.

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