The Archaeology of a Postemancipation Smallholder in the British Virgin Islands
August 1, 1834, was in some ways only a stepping-stone toward actual freedom (Kelly et al. 2011:243). For many enslaved Africans, little except their legal status changed when slavery ended in the British colonies, as land and capital were still held by their former enslavers. In some islands such a...
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| Published in | Archaeologies of Slavery and Freedom in the Caribbean p. 242 |
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| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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University of Florida Press
10.10.2016
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| Summary: | August 1, 1834, was in some ways only a stepping-stone toward actual freedom (Kelly et al. 2011:243). For many enslaved Africans, little except their legal status changed when slavery ended in the British colonies, as land and capital were still held by their former enslavers. In some islands such as Jamaica, available land allowed some to extricate themselves from the new kind of oppressions of a post-slavery plantation system, but many “former enslaved laborers remained caught in the social and economic web of servitude, repressive wage labor, and an inability to gain access to land and resources” (Kelly et al. |
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| ISBN: | 1683400038 9781683400035 |
| DOI: | 10.2307/j.ctvx06zvn.13 |