The archaeology of antislavery resistance /

The archaeology of antislavery resistance /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Weik, Terrance M.
Imprint:	Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2012.
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 193 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	American Experience in Archaeological Perspective American experience in archaeological perspective.
Subject:	Antislavery movements -- United States -- History. Slave insurrections -- United States -- History. Fugitive slaves -- United States -- History. Underground Railroad. Ethnoarchaeology -- United States. Archaeology and history -- United States. African Americans -- Antiquities. Slaves -- United States -- Antiquities. African Americans -- Antiquities. Antislavery movements. Archaeology and history. Ethnoarchaeology. Fugitive slaves. Slave insurrections. Underground Railroad. United States. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11121001

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ISBN:	9780813040356 0813040353 9780813037592 081303759X
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Weik, Terrance M. Archaeology of antislavery resistance. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2012 9780813037592

Table of Contents:

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.