Colleagues,
The September 2014 issue of Slavery &
Abolition (vol. 35, no. 3) is a Special Issue
entitled "Material Cultures of Slavery and
Abolition in the British Caribbean". The Guest
Editors are Christer Petley and Stephan Lenik.
I will append the Table of Contents below. A
full listing of the Table of Contents is also
available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fsla20/current
Further information on Slavery & Abolition
(including how to access an online sample copy of
the journal) is available
at: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fsla20/current#.UbhUsJwQMT4
Best wishes,
Gad
Prof. Gad Heuman, Editor
Slavery & Abolition
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Special Issue: Material Cultures of Slavery and
Abolition in the British Caribbean
Edited by Christer Petley and Stephan Lenik
Stephan Lenik and Christer Petley, ‘Introduction:
The Material Cultures of Slavery and Abolition in the British Caribbean’
Section I – Planters, workers and the development of plantation space
1. Douglas V. Armstrong and Matthew C. Reilly,
‘The Archaeology of Settler Farms and Early
Plantation Life in Seventeenth-Century Barbados’
2. Stephanie Bergman and Frederick H. Smith,
‘Blurring Disciplinary Boundaries: The Material
Culture of Improvement during the Age of Abolition in Barbados’
3. Christer Petley, ‘Plantations and Homes: The
Material Culture of the Early Nineteenth-Century Jamaican Elite’
Section II – Material inequalities and practices inside enslaved communities
4. Justin Roberts, ‘The “Better Sort” and the
“Poorer Sort”: Wealth Inequalities, Family
Formation and the Economy of Energy on British
Caribbean Sugar Plantations, 1750-1800’
5. James A. Delle and Kristen R. Fellows, ‘Death
and Burial at Marshall’s Pen, a Jamaican Coffee
Plantation, 1814-1839: Examining the End of Life at the End of Slavery’
Section III – The uses and meanings of material
culture between slavery and freedom
6. Natalie Zacek and Laurence Brown, ‘Unsettled
Houses: The Material Culture of the Missionary
Project in Jamaica in the Era of Emancipation’
7. Stephan Lenik, ‘Plantation Labourer
Rebellions, Material Culture, and Events:
Historical Archaeology at Geneva Estate, Grand Bay, Commonwealth of Dominica’
B.W. Higman, ‘Afterword: Survival and Silence in
the Material Record of Slavery and Abolition’
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