The study of slavery in the Americas generally assumes a basic racial hierarchy: Africans or those of African descent are usually the slaves; and white people usually the slaveholders. In this unique interdisciplinary work of historical archaeology; anthropologist Katherine Hayes draws on years of fieldwork on Shelter Island’s Sylvester Manor to demonstrate how racial identity was constructed and lived before plantation slavery was racialized by the legal codification of races.
#608780 in Books NYU Press 2005-12-01 2005-12-01Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.02 x .53 x 5.98l; .68 #File Name: 0814740189215 pages
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