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Reinventing the Colonial Plantation on French Saint-Christophe (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Comparative Perspectives on European Colonization in the Americas: Papers in Honor of Réginald Auger" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper examines the transformation of the plantation economy from tobacco to sugar production at sites on the island of Saint-Christophe (Saint Kitts) in the French Antilles. This shift was motivated by a drop in tobacco prices in the 1630s leading to sugar monoculture....