Considering Multiscalar Approaches to Creolization Among Enslaved Laborers at Estate Bethlehem, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands |
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Authors: | Stephan Lenik |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University, 209 Maxwell Hall, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA |
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Abstract: | Archaeological studies of plantations need to consider the scale of the historical circumstances which shape locally circumscribed
Creole processes. These circumstances range from broad generalizations down to factors operating only at the local level of
the individual estate. Recent excavations at Estate Lower Bethlehem, St. Croix, Virgin Islands, have recovered an artifact
assemblage from a laborer village dating from the mid-eighteenth century to the first quarter of the nineteenth century, which
was situated adjacent to a previously unrecorded cemetery and a large tamarind tree. This assemblage illustrates the importance
of a multiscalar approach to Creolization in two ways: an analysis of the distribution of vessel forms of European pottery
and “Afro-Cruzan” earthenwares; and the identification of fragments of lead-glazed slip-decorated redware pottery produced
by Moravians. |
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Keywords: | Creolization Scale Plantation Moravians |
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