The landscapes of class negotiation on coffee plantations in the blue mountains of Jamaica: 1790–1850

Historical Archaeology - Tập 33 - Trang 136-158 - 2016
James A. Delle1
1Department of Anthropology, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, USA

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Analyzing the material elements of class negotiation should be a focus of historical archaeology. One of the most promising forms of material culture with which to conduct such analysis is landscape. To examine how landscapes shaped the negotiation of class relations in 19th century Jamaica, the material remains of three coffee plantations—Sherwood Forest, Clydesdale, and Chesterfield—are described and analyzed. The archaeological analysis of the landscapes of 19th century class negotiation can shed light on the historical development of capitalist social processes, many of which still impact the negotiation of class relations today. —Free negroes are found to act differently from other free men; not because they differ from others in character, but because their circumstances are different; and just in proportion as they are brought within the reach of those motives by which Europeans are governed, will their conduct resemble that of the natives of Europe (Henry George Grey to the Deputation of the Standing Committee of West India Planters, 1833).

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