Variation in Venues of Slavery and Freedom: Interpreting the Late Eighteenth-Century Cultural Landscape of St. John, Danish West Indies Using an Archaeological GIS

被引：12

作者：

Armstrong, Douglas V. ^{[1
]}

Hauser, Mark ^{[2
]}

Knight, David W. ^{[3
]}

Lenik, Stephan ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Syracuse Univ, Dept Anthropol, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA

[2] Univ Notre Dame, Dept Africana Studies, Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA

[3] Little Nordside Press, St Thomas, VI USA

来源：

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY | 2009年 / 13卷 / 01期

关键词：

Free-colored; GIS; Freedom; Cultural landscape;

D O I：

10.1007/s10761-008-0066-6

中图分类号：

K85 [文物考古];

学科分类号：

0601 ;

摘要：

An archaeological GIS is used to examine the late eighteenth-century cultural landscape of St. John, US Virgin Islands. Land use patterns are reconstructed using a combination of historic maps, tax records, and survey reconnaissance. The study demonstrates significant, heretofore undocumented, transitions taking place that reflect dynamic cultural and economic change within Danish West Indian plantation society that includes a significant trend towards land ownership by free-colored St. Johnians more than a half a century before emancipation. These venues of freedom are discussed in relation to broader patterns of estate consolidation and economic shifts.

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页码：94 / 111

页数：18