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Slavery behind the Wall: An Archaeology of a Cuban Coffee Plantation
Theresa A. Singleton
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hardcover. In this book, Theresa Singleton examines the rarely studied slave society of Cuba, focusing on the Santa Ana de Biajacas site. Series: Cultural Heritage Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages, 36 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJC; HBJD; HBLH; HBTS; HDD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 159 x 29. Weight in Grams: 582.
Cuba had the largest slave society of the Spanish colonial empire and thus the most plantations. The lack of archaeological data for interpreting these sites is a glaring void in slavery and plantation studies. Theresa Singleton helps to fill this gap with the presentation of the first archaeological investigation of a Cuban plantation written by an English speaker.
At Santa Ana de Biajacas, where the plantation owner sequestered slaves behind a massive masonry wall, Singleton explores how elite Cuban planters used the built environment to impose a hierarchical social order upon slave laborers. Behind the wall, slaves reclaimed the ... Read more
Cuba had the largest slave society of the Spanish colonial empire and thus the most plantations. The lack of archaeological data for interpreting these sites is a glaring void in slavery and plantation studies. Theresa Singleton helps to fill this gap with the presentation of the first archaeological investigation of a Cuban plantation written by an English speaker.
At Santa Ana de Biajacas, where the plantation owner sequestered slaves behind a massive masonry wall, Singleton explores how elite Cuban planters used the built environment to impose a hierarchical social order upon slave laborers. Behind the wall, slaves reclaimed the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Press of Florida United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Cultural Heritage Studies
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Florida, United States
ISBN
9780813060729
SKU
V9780813060729
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About Theresa A. Singleton
Theresa A. Singleton is associate professor of anthropology at Syracuse University, USA. She has served as curator for historical archaeology at the Smithsonian Institution, and she is the editor of The Archaeology of Slavery and Plantation Life.
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