Contents
Introduction: Archaeology and the Struggle against Slavery / James A. Delle
Part I: The Physical Struggle
1. “Freedom Began Here”: A Social Archaeology of Armed Struggle at Christiana, Pennsylvania / James A. Delle
2. Consequences of Rebellion: The 1763 St. Jan Rebellion and the Establishment of a Danish St. Croix / Holly Kathryn Norton
3. Resistance and Reform: Landscapes at Green Castle Estate, Antigua / Samantha Rebovich Bardoe
Part II: The Moral Struggle
4. “Strike for Freedom or Die Slaves!” David Ruggles and the Free Black Struggle to End Slavery / Linda M. Ziegenbein
5. “Equality of Man Before His Creator”: Thaddeus Stevens and the Struggle against Slavery / James A. Delle and Mary Ann Levine
6. Harriet Tubman’s Farmsteads in Central New York: Archaeological Explorations Relating to an American Icon / Douglas V. Armstrong
Part III: Beyond the Limits of Tyrants
7. Scission Communities and Social Defiance: Marronage in the Diasporic Great Dismal Swamp, 1660–1860 / Daniel O. Sayers
8. Including Maroon History on the Florida Gulf Coast: Archaeology and the Struggle for Freedom on the Early 19th-Century Manatee River / Uzi Baram
9. Taking a Closer Look at Retention, Rebellion, and Resistance: The Three R’s of African-Diaspora Studies / Cheryl White
Contributors
Index