Atlantic Slave Trade (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tania Andrade Lima.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology of Cities: Unearthing Complexity in Urban Landscapes", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Until recently the archaeology of the African diaspora in the Americas had focused its attention primarily on the plantations. Research conducted in urban areas, however, has shown the wealth of information extractable from city subsoils. As one of the most important ports of entry of Africans during...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelly Goldberg.

As the British Navy patrolled the West African coast in an effort to enforce the cessation of the Atlantic Slave Trade beginning in the early nineteenth century, several American and European traders shifted their focus a slightly inland, establishing trading sites on the more visibly protected tidal branches of the Rio Pongo of coastal Guinea. This paper explores the material culture used and maintained by one of these establishments at the site of Gambia, considering how material consumption...