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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Archaeology and the Struggle against Slavery / James A. Delle -- Part I: The Physical Struggle -- 1. "Freedom Began Here": A Social Archaeology of Armed Struggle at Christiana, Pennsylvania / James A. Delle -- 2. Consequences of Rebellion: The 1763 St. Jan Rebellion and the Establishment of a Danish St. Croix / Holly Kathryn Norton -- 3. Resistance and Reform: Landscapes at Green Castle Estate, Antigua / Samantha Rebovich Bardoe -- Part II: The Moral Struggle -- 4. "Strike for Freedom or Die Slaves!" David Ruggles and the Free Black Struggle to End Slavery / Linda M. Ziegenbein -- 5. "Equality of Man Before His Creator": Thaddeus Stevens and the Struggle against Slavery / James A. Delle and Mary Ann Levine -- 6. Harriet Tubman's Farmsteads in Central New York: Archaeological Explorations Relating to an American Icon / Douglas V. Armstrong -- Part III: Beyond the Limits of Tyrants -- 7. Scission Communities and Social Defiance: Marronage in the Diasporic Great Dismal Swamp, 1660-1860 / Daniel O. Sayers -- 8. Including Maroon History on the Florida Gulf Coast: Archaeology and the Struggle for Freedom on the Early 19th-Century Manatee River / Uzi Baram -- 9. Taking a Closer Look at Retention, Rebellion, and Resistance: The Three R's of African-Diaspora Studies / Cheryl White -- Contributors -- Index.

Landscapes of power in the colonial Caribbean -- His Majesty's island : the colonial world of plantation Jamaica -- The plantation mode of production -- A class for itself : regional landscapes of the planter class -- Contradictions and dialectics : village landscapes of the enslaved -- Dialectics and social change : plantation landscapes after slavery -- Plantation landscapes in comparative perspective -- Conclusion

Breaking typological barriers: looking for the colono in colonoware / Theresa A. Singleton and Mark Bograd -- Labor, racism, and the built environment in early industrial Harpers Ferry / Paul A. Shackel and David L. Larsen -- Lemuels's garden: confronting issues of reace, class, and power through the differential preservation of archaeological sites in northern Utah / William B. Fawcett and Walter Robert Lewelling -- Panoptic plantations: the garden sights of Thomas Jefferson and George Mason / Terrence W. Epperson -- The divide in post-fifteenth-century southern Africa: archaeology of the color line and white settler history / Warren R. Perry -- Family meals and evening parties: constructing domesticity in nineteenth-century middle-class New York / Diana diZerega Wall -- Do(c)ła Luisa and her two houses / Ross W. Jamieson -- Gender, power, and space: negotiating social relations under slavery on coffee plantations in Jamaica, 1790-1834 / James A. Delle -- Building biographies: spatial changes in domestic structures during the transition from feudalism to capitalism / Patricia Hart Mangan -- Urban spaces, labor organization, and social control: lessons from New England's nineteenth-century cutlery industry / Michael S. Nassaney and Marjorie R. Abel -- The growth of managerial capitalism and the subtleties of class analysis in historical archaeology / Stephen A. Mrozowski -- Epilogue: the rise of capitalist civilization and the archaeology of class, gender, and race / Thomas C. Patterson

Creole Transformation from Slavery to Freedom: Historical Archaeology of the East End Community, St. John, Virgin Islands. Douglas V. Armstrong. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. 448 pp.

Island Lives: Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean. Paul Farnsworth. ed. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2001. 378 pp.

Although African slavery in the United States is generally associated with the South, the institution also existed in northern states as late as the 1840s, especially in large urban centers, such as Philadelphia and New York. Contrariwise, freed African Americans in the region established rural communities all their own and actively resisted the institution as a whole. The newest volume proposed for inclusion in the American Experience in Archaeological Perspective series, written by one of the leading scholars in the field of African Diaspora archaeology, is a synthetic analysis of recently published work on the subject (although no monograph exists on northern slavery). This volume provides a new perspective on the intricate connection between slavery and freedom in the United States. As Delle argues, scholars cannot understand slavery "in the absence of freedom."

All parts of the Caribbean were shaped by similar forces, including race-based chattel slavery, sugar, capitalism, and the tropical and sometimes deadly natural environment. Within these commonalities, however, is also a great deal of diversity. Large sugar plantations populated by hundreds of enslaved Africans rightfully receive a great deal of attention from archaeologists, historians, and the public. The authors in this volume, however, use innovative techniques and perspectives to reveal the stories of places and times where the rules of this system did not always apply. Collectively, the chapters focus on the spaces in-between, alternate views of plantation landscapes, and the complex dynamics at play in the days following slavery.