Global Archaeologies of the Long Emancipation

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jonathan Rodriguez. Schuyler Espirit. Diane Wallman.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Global Archaeologies of the Long Emancipation", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. For more than 50 years hundreds of self-emancipated Africans inhabited the mountainous interior of the Caribbean island of Dominica (Wai’tukubuli) where they formed various communities who actively resisted European colonialism and slavery not only to maintain their freedom, but to assist in liberating enslaved Africans throughout...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rui Gomes Coelho.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Global Archaeologies of the Long Emancipation", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Plantation economies shaped the world we live in by establishing new relationships between humans, but also between humanity and the rest of the planet. This world-ecology, which Donna Haraway and others have called the Plantationocene, is grounded on modes of extraction, accumulation, and circulation that also defined the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Johana Caterina Mantilla Oliveros.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Global Archaeologies of the Long Emancipation", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The analysis of three models of houses in the Afro-Colombian community of San Basilio de Palenque points to developments in domestic spaces, each related to specific contexts of social, economic, and cultural transformations. Original domestic formations date from the early stages of the emergence of this maroon community. Another...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniela Balanzategui.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Global Archaeologies of the Long Emancipation", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Since 2013, we have been working as part of a collaborative project with Afro-Ecuadorian leader and maestra, Barbarita Lara (National Coordinating Committee of Black Women- Carchi), to revitalize an Afro-Ecuadorian cemetery of maroon ancestors, named Garden of Memory Martina Carrillo. In this presentation, we reflect on the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lori Lee. Mary Elizabeth Ibarrola.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Global Archaeologies of the Long Emancipation", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Fort Mose was the first legally sanctioned free black community in Spanish North America. In 1693 the Spanish governor of Florida guaranteed the legal freedom of self-emancipated Africans and African Americans if they converted to Catholicism, built and occupied a fort on the frontier of St. Augustine, and fought against Spanish...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Oluseyi O. Agbelusi.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Global Archaeologies of the Long Emancipation", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. While many archaeological studies examine the impacts of the Atlantic slave trade on West African communities, archaeological research on tension for freedom in the region has been limited. No archaeological studies have analysed how anti-slavery or struggle for abolition set the stage for colonialism in the region. This paper...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ayana Omilade Flewellen.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Global Archaeologies of the Long Emancipation", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Structures built by Black hands to withstand hurricane-force winds and the brutalities of African enslavement are still standing, scattered across rolling hills, valleys, and urban centers on the island of St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands. On these landscapes, many structures are either left in ruins or renovated over time for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Reilly. Caree Banton. Craig Stevens. Chrislyn Laurore.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Global Archaeologies of the Long Emancipation", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The 2022 bicentennial of the arrival of Black Americans to West African shores was a moment of reflection for many Liberians. In the wake of civil war, many questioned the celebratory tone of the occasion and challenged settler heritage narratives. At the same time, Providence Island featured prominently in official programming,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gabby O Hartemann.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Global Archaeologies of the Long Emancipation", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Increasingly, the study of Global Black and Afrodiasporic placemaking strategies appears to be of interest to archaeologists. Yet, the focus on these past stories also reveals countless colonial wounds and contemporary structures of violence which the archaeological discipline oftentimes is complicit in maintaining. Rather than...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lydia Wilson Marshall. Thomas Biginagwa.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Global Archaeologies of the Long Emancipation", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the 1890s, the slave and ivory trader Rashid bin Masoud established the settlement Kikole deep in what is now southwestern Tanzania. Kikole was strategically located near Lake Nyasa, a major slaving region. Masoud’s followers residing at Kikole were typically referred to as his slaves by German colonists and missionaries. Local...