The archaeology of antislavery resistance /
Weik, Terrance M.
The archaeology of antislavery resistance / Terrance M. Weik ; foreword by Michael S. Nassaney. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2012. - 1 online resource (xiv, 193 pages) - American Experience in Archaeological Perspective . - American experience in archaeological perspective. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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 slavery that were pursued by people of the African Diaspora in the Americas and their allies.
English.
9780813040356 (electronic bk.) 0813040353 (electronic bk.)
Antislavery movements--History.--United States
Slave insurrections--History.--United States
Fugitive slaves--History.--United States
Underground Railroad.
Ethnoarchaeology--United States.
Archaeology and history--United States.
African Americans--Antiquities.
Slaves--Antiquities.--United States
Mouvements antiesclavagistes--Histoire.--États-Unis
Archéologie et histoire--États-Unis.
Ethnoarchéologie--États-Unis.
Esclaves fugitifs--Histoire.--États-Unis
Révoltes d'esclaves--Histoire.--États-Unis
Underground Railroad.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Slavery.
African Americans--Antiquities.
Antislavery movements.
Archaeology and history.
Ethnoarchaeology.
Fugitive slaves.
Slave insurrections.
Underground Railroad.
United States.
Electronic books.
History.
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326/.80973
The archaeology of antislavery resistance / Terrance M. Weik ; foreword by Michael S. Nassaney. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2012. - 1 online resource (xiv, 193 pages) - American Experience in Archaeological Perspective . - American experience in archaeological perspective. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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 slavery that were pursued by people of the African Diaspora in the Americas and their allies.
English.
9780813040356 (electronic bk.) 0813040353 (electronic bk.)
Antislavery movements--History.--United States
Slave insurrections--History.--United States
Fugitive slaves--History.--United States
Underground Railroad.
Ethnoarchaeology--United States.
Archaeology and history--United States.
African Americans--Antiquities.
Slaves--Antiquities.--United States
Mouvements antiesclavagistes--Histoire.--États-Unis
Archéologie et histoire--États-Unis.
Ethnoarchéologie--États-Unis.
Esclaves fugitifs--Histoire.--États-Unis
Révoltes d'esclaves--Histoire.--États-Unis
Underground Railroad.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Slavery.
African Americans--Antiquities.
Antislavery movements.
Archaeology and history.
Ethnoarchaeology.
Fugitive slaves.
Slave insurrections.
Underground Railroad.
United States.
Electronic books.
History.
E450 / .W398 2012eb
326/.80973