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The archaeology of antislavery resistance / Terrance M. Weik ; foreword by Michael S. Nassaney.

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Terrance Weik presents readers with case studies accumulated from the material record left by Maroons in the Americas, Black Seminoles, and the Underground Railroad. He specifically highlights the way archaeologists' contributions have added to our understanding of struggles for freedom from sl...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Weik, Terrance M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2012.
Series:American experience in archaeological perspective.
Subjects:
Antislavery movements > United States > History.
Slave rebellions > United States > History.
Fugitive slaves > United States > History.
Underground Railroad.
Ethnoarchaeology > United States.
Archaeology and history > United States.
African Americans > Antiquities.
Enslaved persons > United States > Antiquities.
Antislavery movements.
Archaeology and history.
Ethnoarchaeology.
Fugitive slaves.
Slave rebellions.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Historical highlights of antislavery resistance
  • Resistance, freedom, networks, and ethnogenesis in theory and practice
  • Archaeologies of self-liberated African communities
  • Antislavery collaborations and the Underground Railroad
  • Coalitions, community-building, and conflict in Seminole Territory
  • Conclusion.

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