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)