Bibliograph

Slavery before race, Europeans, Africans, and Indians at Long Island's Sylvester Manor Plantation, 1651-1884, Katherine Howlett Hayes

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Slavery before race, Europeans, Africans, and Indians at Long Island's Sylvester Manor Plantation, 1651-1884, Katherine Howlett Hayes

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-213) and index

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Slavery before race

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electronic resource eBook

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dictionariesbibliography

Responsibility statement

Katherine Howlett Hayes

Series statement

Early American places

Sub title

Europeans, Africans, and Indians at Long Island's Sylvester Manor Plantation, 1651-1884

Summary

The study of slavery in the Americas generally assumes a basic racial hierarchy: Africans or those of African descent are usually the slaves, and white people usually the slaveholders. In this unique interdisciplinary work of historical archaeology, anthropologist Katherine Hayes draws on years of fieldwork on Shelter Island's Sylvester Manor to demonstrate how racial identity was constructed and lived before plantation slavery was racialized by the legal codification of races. Using the historic Sylvester Manor Plantation site turned archaeological dig as a case study, Hayes draws on artifa

Table Of Contents

Prologue -- Tracing a racialized history -- Convergence -- Building and destroying -- Objects of interaction -- Forgetting to remember, remembering to forget -- Unimagining communities -- Epilogue

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