For Nothing is Fixed, Forever, and Forever, and Forever: Changing Cropscapes in Colonial Barbuda

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Co-Producing Space: Relational Approaches to Agrarian Landscapes, Labor, Commodities, and Communities", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

In the mid-seventeenth century, the island of Barbuda was established as a plantation under a land grant from the English Crown. Over the course of two hundred and fifty years or so, managers of the Barbuda Plantation tried various strategies to produce a profit from the labor and expertise of the people held captive and enslaved on the island. This paper draws on the idea of “cropscapes” (Bray, et al, 2019) to examine the shifting ecologies and assemblages which became integral parts of Barbudan culture and identity.

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• Society for Historical Archaeology 2024   •
• Co-Producing Space: Relational Approaches to Agrarian Landscapes, Labor, Commodities, and Communities

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