| Contents |
Introduction: The comparative archaeology of slavery / Lydia Wilson Marshall -- Commodities or gifts? : captive/slaves in small-scale societies / Catherine M. Cameron -- Bioarchaelogical case studies of slavery, captivity, and other forms of exploitation / Ryan P. Harrod and Debra L. Martin -- The nature of marginality : castle slaves and the Atlantic trade at San Domingo, the Gambia / Liza Gijanto -- Nineteenth-century built landscape of plantation slavery in comparative perspective / Theresa A. Singleton -- "The landscape cannot be said to be really perfect" : a comparative investigation of plantation spatial organization on two British colonial sugar estates / Lynsey A. Bates -- Blind spots in empire : plantation landscapes in early colonial Dominica (1763-1807) / Mark W. Hauser -- Retentions, adaptations, and the need for social control within African and African American communities across the southern United States from 1770 to 1930 / Kenneth L. Brown -- Cities, slavery, and rural ambivalence in precolonial Dahomey / J. Cameron Monroe -- Slavery matters and materiality : Atlantic items, political processes, and the collapse of the Hueda kingdom, Benin, West Africa / Neil L. Norman -- The impact of slavery on the East African political economy and gender relationships / Chapurukha M. Kusimba -- Maroon archaeological research in Mauritius and its possible implications in a global context / Amitava Chowdhury -- Marronage and the politics of memory : fugitive slaves, interaction, and integration in nineteenth-century Kenya / Lydia Wilson Marshall -- The Indian slave trade and Catawba history / Mary Elizabeth Fitts -- Roman columbarium tombs and slave identities / Dorian Borbonus -- Visible people, invisible slavery : plantation archaeology in East Africa / Sarah K. Croucher -- A global perspective on Maroon archaeology in Brazil / Lucio Menezes Ferreira -- Fighting despair : challenges of a comparative, global framework for slavery studies / Christopher C. Fennell. |
