Enslavement and the African Diaspora in the Caribbean
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African Americans in a Dominican Cemetery: Social Boundaries of an Enclave Community (2013)
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This paper presents preliminary findings from an aboveground study of a cemetery in Samaná, Dominican Republic. In 1824 approximately 200 African Americans left the United States for what was then Haiti, and established an enclave in a relatively isolated area of the island. Their Anglo surnames, Protestantism, and primary use of English have defined this community in relation to the neighboring Dominican and Haitian populations for over 150 years. Using spatial data from the town’s cemetery, I...
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A Comparative Investigation of Plantation Spatial Organization on Two British Caribbean Sugar Estates (2013)
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Tracing the relationship between the development of plantation landscapes and the people who interacted with, altered and maintained those landscapes provides a constructive approach to comparatively analyze slavery across divergent spatial and temporal contexts. The plantation system in Atlantic World contexts required that estate owners create a suite of strategies that maximized labor, time and space to make cash crop production profitable. To address this issue, this paper investigates two...
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James Lees and the Enslaved African Occupation at Brimstone Hill, St. Kitts, West Indies (2013)
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James Lees became the first Royal Engineer stationed at the Brimstone Hill Fortress in the late 1770s, a post he resumed after French occupation of the fort ended in 1783 and which he continued to serve until 1790. Among Lees' responsibilities was calculating the number of enslaved African laborers needed at the fort and determining where to house them. For this purpose Lees constructed a line of four buildings –two hospitals, a kitchen and "a hut for the colony laborers". All were abandoned...
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Recreating the Bahamian Plantation Landscape: Charles Farquharson's Prospect Hill Plantation archeaology and historical insights (2013)
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This paper will examine the construction of the plantation landscape drawing on both extent archaeological remains and documentary record for the plantation. Charles Farquharson's Prospect Hill plantation is one of the most studied sites in The Bahamas. Farquharson has the distinction of being the only out-island planter who left a diary from the plantation period, an important historical source for understanding plantation life. In addition to the textual record for the plantation, however,...
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Slave Ships and Mutiny, The Cahuita National Park Shipwreck Survey in Costa Rica (2013)
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Tourism brochures advertise two shipwrecks in the Cahuita National Park in Costa Rica. The sites are restricted to snorkeling only and the use of SCUBA equipment is not permitted. Local guides, whose families have specialized in free diving for generations, are employed to offer snorkeling tours and are required to be used in the confines of the park. Little is currently known about the identity of these shipwrecks. Historical and archaeological investigations suggest several possible candidates...
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Spanish Slavers and European Interlopers on the Spanish Lake: Eye Witness Accounts from Shipwreck Survivors in the Lesser Antilles 1620-1635 (2013)
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The Caribbean Islands, neglected by the Spanish in their conquest of the mainland, were colonized in the 1620s by French, Dutch and English settlers. In less than 50 years, the neglected Islands would become pivotal in European politics. Wealthy planters in England would control parliament for the next 150 years and the Caribbean would be changed forever, leaving behind a legacy of genocide, slavery and immigration. Slaves played a key role in this process. This paper, based on primary sources...