Slavery behind the wall : an archaeology of a Cuban coffee plantation
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Singleton Theresa A. ;
- Editeurs : Gainesville, FL University Press of Florida ;
- Date d'édition : Cop. 2015
- ISBN : 978-0-8130-6072-9, 0-8130-6072-9
- Sujets : Esclaves -- Conditions sociales -- Cuba, Archéologie sociale, Fouilles archéologiques, Cuba -- Antiquités
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XXI-261 p.), : Ill., cartes, couv. ill. en coul., 24 cm
- Pays de publication : États-Unis
- Collection (notice d'ensemble) : Cultural heritage studies
Notes
Bibliographie p. 225-250. Index
Résumé
La quatrième de couverture indique: 'Cuba had the largest slave society of the Spanish colonial empire. At Santa Ana de Biajacas the plantation owner sequestered slaves behind a massive masonry wall. In the first archaeological investigation of a Cuban plantation by a native English speaker, Theresa 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 space as their own, forming communities, building their own houses, celebrating, gambling, and even harboring slave runaways. What emerged there is not just an identity distinct from other North American and Caribbean plantations, but a unique slave culture that thrived despite a spartan lifestyle. Singleton’s study provides insight into the larger historical context of the African diaspora, global patterns of enslavement, and the development of Cuba as an integral member of the larger Atlantic World.'