Dynamics of a Post-Sugar Montserrat in the Era of Lime

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

This paper examines Montserrat’s citrus lime industry (ca.1852-1928) as a case study for understanding the ways new Caribbean agro-industries impacted the lives of island residents and changed the physical landscape in the wake of emancipation. The lime industry marked a major period of transformation for the Caribbean island and its inhabitants as the shift in agriculture reappropriated sugar-era plantation infrastructure as well as the formerly enslaved labor pool. Approaches are taken from landscape and historical archaeology, as well as the anthropology of food and consumption, to aid in understanding the complex network of agents, policies, and processes which were active in shaping the shifting dynamics of lime-era Montserratian society. Archaeological evidence suggests that these entities interacted in a diverse set of (often conflicting) ways, ultimately shifting the colonial arrangements of class, race, and labor by the turn of the 20th-century.

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