Seeking Out Slavery in Colonial Saint Domingue (Haiti)

Summary

Saint Domingue was the most important European colony of the Caribbean region, producing vast amounts of wealth through the labor of enslaved Africans and their descendants. It was also the setting of the only large scale slave revolt that succeeded in overturning the slavery system. In spite of this importance to Atlantic studies, African Diaspora studies, and historical archaeology, very little substantive research has been conducted on sites associated with the dwelling places of the enslaved laborers. In summer of 2016, I travelled to Haiti and surveyed nearly 30 plantation sites to determine if the slave villages could be identified, and their potential for contributing toward developing comparisons with other slave-based colonies of the French colonial world. This paper presents the results of that research.

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• Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)

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Abstract Id(s): 14391