Exploring enslaved laborers’ ceramic investment and market access in Jamaica

Bates, Lynsey A.

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“…Scholars have continued to expand our understanding of what was possible for enslaved individuals, families, and communities to produce and procure for themselves, leading to a rise in scholarship calling for an overhaul of traditional material culture typologies (Agbe‐Davies , ; Mullins ), a reinterpretation of the spaces that enslaved people and their descendants once called home (Barnes and Steen ; Battle‐Baptiste ; Flewellen ; Jackson ), and renewed interest in the role location played in determining quality of life within the diasporic experience (LaRoche ; McKittrick and Woods ; Wood ). Recent theorists have expanded this topic in the Caribbean to consider the circulation of specific commodities within internal market systems (Arcangeli ; Bates , ; Hauser , , ). It is at precisely these crossroads of intellectual discourse and interdisciplinary scholarship that the current study enters the conversation.…”

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An Archaeology of Struggle: Material Remnants of a Double Consciousness in the American South and Danish Caribbean Communities

Odewale

2019

Transforming Anthropology

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The Danish West Indies has often been left out of comparative investigations of slavery between the United States and the Caribbean. This study examines the natural and social environments of two enslaved communities in an effort to reveal the greatest threats to the lives of enslaved peoples and how each community responded differently to such threats. A mix of archaeological and documentary evidence recovered from James and Dolley Madison's Montpelier plantation in Virginia and the Christiansted National Historic Site in St. Croix has revealed an archaeology of struggle, a form of double consciousness in the minds of enslaved peoples, oscillating between self-preservation and resistance in the daily fight for survival. The diversity of livelihoods across the African Diaspora is illuminated by comparing the lives of Afro-Caribbeans enslaved by the Danish Crown in St. Croix, within an urban, non-plantation, and sugar-based industry, to that of African Americans enslaved by a US president in Virginia, within a rural, plantation, and tobacco-based industry. The results indicate that enslaved peoples in different regions did not have the same primary concerns or face the same environmental dangers and, as a result, invented different ways of coping with the unique struggles they faced. [African Diaspora, Danish West Indies, Caribbean Archaeology, urban slavery, Virginia]

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An Archaeology of Struggle: Material Remnants of a Double Consciousness in the American South and Danish Caribbean Communities

Odewale

2019

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“…278 Newer vessel forms were produced which included 1) serving (teapots, saucers, and sugarbowls), 2) dining (tableware), and 3) utilitarian (cookware). 279 The production of the main vessel forms within these categories would likely impact the types of forms excavated in IKG considering that the production of the types of wares by the British would have directly impacted the types of wares being sold and exported. This would offer another possible explanation to why there were more individual serving sized wares found in IKG.…”

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Pottery of the colonial world: the study of European porcelain in Istana Kampong Gelam, Singapore (IKG)

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Colonial archaeology in Singapore and Southeast Asia (SEA) remains underexplored.The availability of historical records and the number of archaeological sites with colonial period artifacts demonstrate the potential for significant archaeological research to be conducted in this area. Over ten archaeological sites in Singapore have yielded materials from the colonial period. Like other SEA sites, ceramics are the most ubiquitous artefacts recovered in colonial archaeological contexts. Archaeological ceramic studies can contribute greatly to our knowledge of the movement of artefacts, illuminating the utilitarian functions of the wares, as well as potentially revealing social relations within the society. The ceramic assemblage in colonial Singapore sites shows a range of imported ceramics from China, Europe, Japan, and SEA.This paper presents a study of a sample of European porcelain sherds from the Istana Kampong Gelam (IKG) site. Analysis of European porcelain at IKG has been undertaken according to four key variables: 1) provenance, 2) form, 3) decorative technique, and 4) decorative motif. A set of hypotheses has been constructed to determine the connection between these different variables, which are tested in the thesis chapters. The utilization of statistical probability tests allows the level of confidence we can have in these conclusions to be measured. This thesis hopes to contribute to existing scholarship on colonial material culture in Singapore and by extension Southeast Asia by first creating an European porcelain typology which can be used as a basis for comparing European porcelain excavated in Singapore and potentially across SEA and other parts of the British empire in future.

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Subsistence as Transformative Practice: The Zooarchaeology of Slavery in the Colonial Caribbean

Wallman

2020

Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage

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Exploring enslaved laborers’ ceramic investment and market access in Jamaica

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An Archaeology of Struggle: Material Remnants of a Double Consciousness in the American South and Danish Caribbean Communities

An Archaeology of Struggle: Material Remnants of a Double Consciousness in the American South and Danish Caribbean Communities

Pottery of the colonial world: the study of European porcelain in Istana Kampong Gelam, Singapore (IKG)

Subsistence as Transformative Practice: The Zooarchaeology of Slavery in the Colonial Caribbean

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