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An Archaeology of Black Markets. Local Ceramics and Economies in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica.
Mark W. Hauser
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Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HDD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
In eighteenth-century Jamaica, an informal, underground economy existed among enslaved labourers. Mark Hauser uses pottery fragments to examine their trade networks and to understand how enslaved and free Jamaicans created communities that transcended plantation boundaries.
An Archaeology of Black Markets utilises both documentary and archaeological evidence to reveal how slaves practiced their own systematic forms of economic production, exchange, and consumption. Hauser compares the findings from a number of previously excavated sites and presents new analyses that reinterpret these collections in the context of island-wide trading networks.
Trading allowed enslaved labourers to cross boundaries of slave life and ... Read more
In eighteenth-century Jamaica, an informal, underground economy existed among enslaved labourers. Mark Hauser uses pottery fragments to examine their trade networks and to understand how enslaved and free Jamaicans created communities that transcended plantation boundaries.
An Archaeology of Black Markets utilises both documentary and archaeological evidence to reveal how slaves practiced their own systematic forms of economic production, exchange, and consumption. Hauser compares the findings from a number of previously excavated sites and presents new analyses that reinterpret these collections in the context of island-wide trading networks.
Trading allowed enslaved labourers to cross boundaries of slave life and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University Press of Florida United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Florida, United States
ISBN
9780813049021
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V9780813049021
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About Mark W. Hauser
Mark W. Hauser is assistant professor of anthropology at Northwestern University, USA.
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