Variation in Venues of Slavery and Freedom: Interpreting the Late Eighteenth-Century Cultural Landscape of St. John, Danish West Indies Using an Archaeological GIS |
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| Authors: | Douglas V Armstrong Mark Hauser David W Knight Stephan Lenik |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University, 209 Maxwell Hall, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA;(2) Department of Africana Studies, University of Notre Dame, 327 O’Shaughnessy Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA;(3) Little Nordside Press, Hull Bay, St. Thomas, United States Virgin Islands, USA;(4) Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University, 209 Maxwell Hall, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA |
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| Abstract: | An archaeological GIS is used to examine the late eighteenth-century cultural landscape of St. John, US Virgin Islands. Land
use patterns are reconstructed using a combination of historic maps, tax records, and survey reconnaissance. The study demonstrates
significant, heretofore undocumented, transitions taking place that reflect dynamic cultural and economic change within Danish
West Indian plantation society that includes a significant trend towards land ownership by free-colored St. Johnians more
than a half a century before emancipation. These venues of freedom are discussed in relation to broader patterns of estate
consolidation and economic shifts. |
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| Keywords: | Free-colored GIS Freedom Cultural landscape |
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