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Katherine Howlett Hayes - Slavery before Race: Europeans, Africans, and Indians at Long Island's Sylvester Manor Plantation, 1651-1884 (Early American Places) - 9780814785775 - V9780814785775
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Slavery before Race: Europeans, Africans, and Indians at Long Island's Sylvester Manor Plantation, 1651-1884 (Early American Places)

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Description for Slavery before Race: Europeans, Africans, and Indians at Long Island's Sylvester Manor Plantation, 1651-1884 (Early American Places) Hardcover. Addresses the significance of Sylvester Manor's plantation history to American attitudes about diversity, Indian land politics, slavery and Jim Crow, in tension with idealized visions of white colonial community Series: Early American Places. Num Pages: 238 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HBTS; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 503.

The study of slavery in the Americas generally assumes a basic racial hierarchy: Africans or those of African descent are usually the slaves, and white people usually the slaveholders. In this unique interdisciplinary work of historical archaeology, anthropologist Katherine Hayes draws on years of fieldwork on Shelter Island’s Sylvester Manor to demonstrate how racial identity was constructed and lived before plantation slavery was racialized by the legal codification of races.


Using the historic Sylvester Manor Plantation site turned archaeological dig as a case study, Hayes draws on artifacts and extensive archival material to present ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
NYU Press
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
Early American Places
Number of Pages
238
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814785775
SKU
V9780814785775
Shipping Time
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Ref
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About Katherine Howlett Hayes
Katherine Howlett Hayes is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from UC Berkeley, and an M.A. in Historical Archaeology from the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Reviews for Slavery before Race: Europeans, Africans, and Indians at Long Island's Sylvester Manor Plantation, 1651-1884 (Early American Places)
Hayes makes the most of asking what is within and beyond the patterns other scholars have laid out. Her observations about the politics and culture of public memory involve scholars as agents of forgetting. Readers of Hayes's work will gain specific knowledge of early plantation slavery in the Northeast and also concrete lessons about being better students of the past. ... Read more

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