Archaeology Below the Cliff : race, class, and Redlegs in Barbadian sugar society / Race, class, and Redlegs in Barbadian sugar society

Archaeology Below the Cliff : race, class, and Redlegs in Barbadian sugar society /

"Archaeology below the Cliff: Race, Class, and Redlegs in Barbadian Sugar Society is the first archaeological study of the poor whites of Barbados, the descendants of seventeenth-century European indentured servants and small farmers. 'Redlegs' is a pejorative to describe the marginal...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reilly, Matthew C. (Matthew Connor), 1986- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2019]
Series:Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory.
Subjects:
Poor white people > Barbados > History.
Indentured servants > Barbados > History.
Plantation life > Barbados > History > Case studies.
Sugar plantations > Barbados > History.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Barbados.
Irish > Barbados > History.
Below Cliff Site (Barbados)
Barbados > Race relations.
Barbados > Economic conditions.
Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of Contents:
  • Archaeologies of plantation modernity
  • Redlegs on the plantation landscape
  • Below Cliff : excavating and engaging with a plantation community
  • Socioeconomic (in)activity
  • "A numerous race of mulattoes" : (de)constructing racial barriers
  • Alternative modernities Below the Cliff

Similar Items