Blackbeard’s Beads: Insights into the Queen Anne Revenge’s Former Life as a Slaver through the Presence of Glass Trade Beads
Author(s): Kimberly Urban
Year: 2018
Summary
Glass trade beads are one of the most notable artifacts of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Beads played an important role in African culture spiritually, metaphysically, and historically. Since its discovery in 1996, over 790 whole and fragmented glass beads have been recovered from the Queen Anne’s Revenge Shipwreck. The beads recovered from the Queen Ann’s Revenge have been identified, classified, cataloged, and compared to other bead assemblages recovered from underwater and terrestrial sites. The archaeological record coupled with historical research provides insight into the ship’s former role as a slaver and addresses the ships link between Africa and the slave trade.
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Blackbeard’s Beads: Insights into the Queen Anne Revenge’s Former Life as a Slaver through the Presence of Glass Trade Beads. Kimberly Urban. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441239)
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Keywords
General
Beads
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Blackbeard
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Slavery
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
1713-1718
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): 584