Creole Cultures of the Caribbean: Historical Archaeology in the French West Indies |
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Authors: | Kenneth G Kelly |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA |
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Abstract: | Historical archaeology is a relatively recent development in the French West Indies, in contrast to the Anglophone Americas
where for over 30 years, historical archaeologists have investigated the sites of plantation villages in the United States
and in the Caribbean to seek insights into the ways in which enslaved Africans adapted to and survived the horrors of slavery,
and created unique and vibrant Creole cultures. Although plantations have been archaeologically investigated in the former
French possessions of the United States, their Caribbean counterparts, and particularly the enslaved population who labored
on them, have only recently become a focus of archaeological research. Yet the historical setting and development of plantation
slavery in the French colonies of the Caribbean was necessarily distinct from both the British Caribbean and from North American
French colonial establishments. This paper discusses the state of historical archaeology in the French West Indies, with particular
reference to plantation archaeology in Guadeloupe and Martinique. This research identifies some of the unique aspects of the
economic and historical context of slavery on French Caribbean plantations. |
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Keywords: | Slavery Plantations French Caribbean |
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