Post-Emancipation Ceramics and Housing in the British Caribbean: A Case Study from St. Kitts’ Southeast Peninsula
Author(s): Todd Ahlman; Ashley McKeown
Year: 2024
Summary
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Emancipation brought many changes to the lives of the formerly enslaved in the British Caribbean. On the British Caribbean island of St. Christopher (St. Kitts), true emancipation came in 1838 following a 4-year apprenticeship period, which was really enslavement in just another name. Freedom meant Kittitians often could choose where they lived, the house they lived in, and the items they purchased with the money they earned for their labors. This study compares the pre- and post-emancipation housing and ceramic assemblages from two households in a plantation village on St. Kitts’ southeast peninsula to understand how people adapted to freedom in the post emancipation period. We find that there are differences in housing and ceramic acquisition and discard between the two households that reflect different investment strategies and agency.
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Post-Emancipation Ceramics and Housing in the British Caribbean: A Case Study from St. Kitts’ Southeast Peninsula. Todd Ahlman, Ashley McKeown. Presented at The 89th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2024 ( tDAR id: 499846)
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Keywords
Geographic Keywords
Caribbean
Spatial Coverage
min long: -90.747; min lat: 3.25 ; max long: -48.999; max lat: 27.683 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 40111.0