Self-Liberation (Other Keyword)

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Ship Imagery and Self-Liberation: Archaeological Investigations of Inter- Island Networks of the Enslaved at the Hughes Estate Plantation Site on Anguilla, B.W.I. (2022)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elysia M Petras.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. When read against the grain, 18th-19th century records provide ample evidence that the enslaved of British Anguilla developed maritime networks of liberation with the enslaved of the nearby island of French/Dutch St. Martin. This presentation will discuss the preliminary findings of archaeological research at the Hughes Estate...

Toward an Archaeology of Self-Liberation (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles Orser.

Hierarchical, capitalist society, though inherently domineering and oppressive, creates spaces for self-actualization. These spaces, most often transitory and short-lived, allow for a degree of class-based self-liberation. Using ideas from anarchist thinkers, I explore the concept of self-liberation with specific reference to two archaeological sites: the seventeenth-century maroon community of Palmares in northeast Brazil, and a nineteenth-century tenant-farming community in central Ireland...