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Author Weik, Terrance M.

Title The archaeology of antislavery resistance / Terrance M. Weik ; foreword by Michael S. Nassaney
Published Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 193 pages)
Series American Experience in Archaeological Perspective
American experience in archaeological perspective.
Contents Introduction -- Historical highlights of antislavery resistance -- Resistance, freedom, networks, and ethnogenesis in theory and practice -- Archaeologies of self-liberated African communities -- Antislavery collaborations and the Underground Railroad -- Coalitions, community-building, and conflict in Seminole Territory -- Conclusion
Summary Terrance Weik presents readers with case studies accumulated from the material record left by Maroons in the Americas, Black Seminoles, and the Underground Railroad. He specifically highlights the way archaeologists' contributions have added to our understanding of struggles for freedom from slavery that were pursued by people of the African Diaspora in the Americas and their allies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Antislavery movements -- United States -- History
Slave rebellions -- United States -- History
Fugitive slaves -- United States -- History
Underground Railroad.
Ethnoarchaeology -- United States
Archaeology and history -- United States
African Americans -- Antiquities
Enslaved persons -- United States -- Antiquities
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery.
African Americans -- Antiquities
Antislavery movements
Archaeology and history
Ethnoarchaeology
Fugitive slaves
Slave rebellions
Underground Railroad
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011037454
ISBN 9780813040356
0813040353