The archaeology of antislavery resistance / / Terrance M. Weik ; foreword by Michael S. Nassaney

• Autore: Weik Terrance M
• Pubblicazione: Gainesville, : University Press of Florida, c2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: xiv, 193 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 326/.80973
• Soggetto topico: African Americans - Antiquities; Antislavery movements - United States - History; Archaeology and history - United States; Ethnoarchaeology - United States; Fugitive slaves - United States - History; Slave insurrections - United States - History; Slaves - United States - Antiquities; Underground Railroad
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The archaeology of antislavery resistance
• ISBN: 0-8130-4035-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814082503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II