Worthy of a Thousand Words?: A Comparison of Images of Slavery in the US and Great Britain
Author(s): Genevieve Goerling
Year: 2013
Summary
In a previous paper I posited that imagery could be used as a resource for the archaeological study of slavery in Great Britain, since the smaller population of African slaves made it difficult to separate evidence of slavery from servitude. This paper will test the theories developed in the previous paper by comparing images from Great Britain with analogous samples from the US. Using traditional historical archaeological methods to study the people and places from which the US images were originally derived will act as a control of the viability of using such images as evidence in Great Britain.
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Worthy of a Thousand Words?: A Comparison of Images of Slavery in the US and Great Britain. Genevieve Goerling. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Leicester, England, U.K. 2013 ( tDAR id: 428663)
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Keywords
General
Colonial
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imagery
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Slavery
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
colonial-Present
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 703