History, Archaeology, and the Legacy of Colonization and Slavery in a Freedom Village in Senegal: Sangane (Western Bawol).

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pre-Recorded Video Presentation Global Black Archaeologies: Mobilizing Critical, Anti-Racist, De/Anti-Colonial, and Black Feminist Archaeologies in Uncertain Times", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

The proposed study falls within a chronological range from the end of the 19th to the 21st century. This period is marked by the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, colonization, African resistance, the emergence of Sufi religions in Senegal, the French administration and its emancipatory policies (new forms of exploitation of labor such as forced labor, forced military service, the system of indentured servitude, or the creation of freedom villages), but above all, the captives' ardent desire to enjoy their freedom and the complex strategies they put in place to achieve it. These facts will generate important movements of populations that upset the demographic and cultural balance. In addition, they occupy a central place in the construction of the contemporary identities of the villagers of Sangane, some of whom are still victims of stigmatization linked to slavery. How was the slave population liberated and integrated into the community?

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Pre-Recorded Video Presentation Global Black Archaeologies: Mobilizing Critical, Anti-Racist, De/Anti-Colonial, and Black Feminist Archaeologies in Uncertain Times   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2023

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