Description Caribbean plantations and the forces that shaped them--slavery, sugar, capitalism, and the tropical, sometimes deadly environment--have been studied extensively.
Bates is a.
Bullen Series About the author Lynsey A.
Wilkie A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P.
Smith - Laurie A.
Seiter - Frederick H.
Reilly - Krysta Ryzewski - Jane I.
Lenik - Marco Meniketti - Matthew C.
Harris - Stephan T.
Fellows - Khadene K.
Delle - Kristen R.
Cherry - James A.
Chenoweth - John F.
Blouet - John M.
Beier - Helen C.
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Bates - Zachary J.
Bassett - Lynsey A.
Contributors: Hayden F.
Together, the analyses of marginal Spaces and postemancipation communities provide a more nuanced understanding of the experiences of those who lived in the historic Caribbean, and who created, nurtured, and ultimately cut the roots of empire.
The volume also explores the lives of poor whites, Afro-descendant members of military garrisons, and free people of color, demonstrating that binary models of black slaves and white planters do not fully encompass the diversity of Caribbean identities before and after emancipation.
These essays reveal a complex world within and Between sprawling plantations--a world of caves, gullies, provision grounds, field houses, fields, and the areas beyond them, where the enslaved networked, interacted, and exchanged goods and information.
Despite grueling work regimes and social and economic restrictions, people held in bondage carved out places of their own at the margins of slavery\'s reach.
Lucia, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Barbados, Nevis, Montserrat, and the British Virgin Islands, the contributors investigate the oft-overlooked interstitial Spaces where enslaved Africans sought to maintain their own identities inside and outside the fixed borders of colonialism.
Employing innovative research tools and integrating data from Dominica, St.
This volume brings together alternate stories of sites that fall outside the large cash-crop estates.
Description Caribbean plantations and the forces that shaped them--slavery, sugar, capitalism, and the tropical, sometimes deadly environment--have been studied extensively
