African Diaspora in Florida
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2020
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "African Diaspora in Florida," at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
The African experience in Florida spans the earliest days of contact with the New World, to the present day. Shaped by colonial and imperial entanglements, the diverse, collective African Diaspora experiences include plantation enslavement, maroonage, negotiated freedoms through service in the Spanish militia, as well as post-emancipation life in the Jim Crow era. Spanning three centuries, the papers in this symposium explore some of these eras and social conditions through site-specific case studies and comparative research; the stories contained within are just a small part of this greater mosaic.
Other Keywords
Plantation •
diaspora •
Military •
Material Culture •
Beads •
African-American •
Kitchen •
Race Relations •
industrial •
Landscape
Temporal Keywords
18th - 20th centuries •
19th Century •
18th Century •
18th and 19th centuries •
19th-Century •
1877-1954
Geographic Keywords
Coahuila (State / Territory) •
New Mexico (State / Territory) •
Oklahoma (State / Territory) •
Arizona (State / Territory) •
Texas (State / Territory) •
Sonora (State / Territory) •
United States of America (Country) •
Chihuahua (State / Territory) •
Nuevo Leon (State / Territory) •
Delaware (State / Territory)
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Bulow Plantation (8FL7): The Main House Kitchen and Remaking of Plantation Landscapes in the Post-Emancipation South (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "African Diaspora in Florida" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Detached kitchens associated with plantation main houses during the antebellum era are recognized places of intersectionality, wherein a single building served multiple functions – as domestic space for enslaved labor (typically a woman and her children), food preparation for the white enslaver’s family, and various other activities. In Florida,...
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Exploring the Pattern of Black and White Bead Use within African American Domestic Spaces (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "African Diaspora in Florida" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. One artifact associated within African Diaspora Archaeology is the blue-glass bead, recognized by some as signifying African-derived culture and beliefs. Recent research examining beads from African American mortuary contexts in the United States from the 18th to early 20th centuries has demonstrated that rather than blue beads, black and white...
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Industry in Ruins: Studies on the Gamble Plantation, Florida (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "African Diaspora in Florida" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Gamble Plantation dates to 1844 when North-Florida planter Robert Gamble established a sugar plantation along the Manatee River. Utilizing his seemingly inexhaustible financial assets Gamble built, and rebuilt, successive plantation mills on his new site implementing expensive, cutting-edge industrial technologies and vast reserves of slave labour...
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A Purposeful Unpatterning: A Spatial Approach to Maroon Settlement in Florida (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "African Diaspora in Florida" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the colonial era, Spanish Florida built a reputation as a refuge for self-liberated people escaping from slavery. However, following the Treaty of Paris, Florida’s governance was in turmoil and the Maroons’ freedom was under constant threat. Florida Maroons were constantly on the move. Consequently, a low density of materials, deficiency of...
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A Return to Fort Mose: Exploring a Free African Town on the Spanish Frontier (1752-1763) (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "African Diaspora in Florida" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose, or Fort Mose, was a fortified settlement established in 1738 by the Spanish governor of Florida, and populated by recently self-emancipated Africans as a defensive element to the town of St. Augustine. The earliest free African town in what is now the United States, Mose was attacked and destroyed by the...
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"The Soil in Florida" – Developing Archaeological Methods to Identify Black Americans in Jim Crow-era Pensacola, Florida (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "African Diaspora in Florida" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Throughout its past, Pensacola, Florida has been a bustling urban center that has historically held a racially and socially diverse community. With this diversity in mind, Pensacola provides a unique example of race relations in a port city of the Jim Crow American south. Using collections from the University of West Florida’s Archaeology...