Slavery Before Race: Europeans, Africans, and Indians at Long Island's Sylvester Manor Plantation, 1651-1884
(Part of the Early American Places Series)
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0814785778
ISBN13:9780814785775
Release Date:April 2013
Publisher:New York University Press
Length:238 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"
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