Senegal (West Africa) (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elias V M Michaut.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the mid 19th century, several thousands of enslaved people from north-western Senegal fled their enslavers to seek freedom in the colonial city of Saint-Louis and in neighbouring French outposts, where slavery had just been abolished. This movement continued throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, creating a landscape of overlapping diasporas where the autonomy and agency of...