Archaeology of Anti-Slavery Resistance.

By: Weik, Terrance MMaterial type: TextTextSeries: American Experience in Archaeological PerspectivePublisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (211 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780813040356Subject(s): African Americans -- Antiquities | Antislavery movements -- United States -- History | Archaeology and history -- United States | Ethnoarchaeology -- United States | Fugitive slaves -- United States -- History | Slave insurrections -- United States -- History | Slaves -- United States -- AntiquitiesGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Archaeology of Anti-Slavery ResistanceDDC classification: 326/.80973 LOC classification: E450 -- .W398 2012ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cvr -- Table of Contents v -- List of Illustrations vii -- Foreword ix -- Acknowledgments xiii -- 1 Introduction 1 -- 2 Historical Highlights of Antislavery Resistance 9 -- 3 Resistance, Freedom, Networks, and Ethnogenesis in Theory and Practice 26 -- 4 Archaeologies of Self-Liberated African Communities 55 -- 5 Antislavery Collaborations and the Underground Railroad 80 -- 6 Coalitions, Community-Building, and Conflict in Seminole Territory 118 -- 7 Conclusion 153 -- References 159 -- Index 181.
Summary: 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 slavery that were pursued by people of the African Diaspora in the Americas and their allies.
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Cvr -- Table of Contents v -- List of Illustrations vii -- Foreword ix -- Acknowledgments xiii -- 1 Introduction 1 -- 2 Historical Highlights of Antislavery Resistance 9 -- 3 Resistance, Freedom, Networks, and Ethnogenesis in Theory and Practice 26 -- 4 Archaeologies of Self-Liberated African Communities 55 -- 5 Antislavery Collaborations and the Underground Railroad 80 -- 6 Coalitions, Community-Building, and Conflict in Seminole Territory 118 -- 7 Conclusion 153 -- References 159 -- Index 181.

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 slavery that were pursued by people of the African Diaspora in the Americas and their allies.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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