Title: An archaeology of Black markets
First published: 2008
Description: "In eighteenth-century Jamaica, an informal, underground economy existed among enslaved laborers. Mark Hauser uses pottery fragments to examine their trade networks and to understand how enslaved and free Jamaicans created communities that transcended plantation boundaries." "An Archaeology of Black Markets utilizes both documentary and archaeological evidence to reveal how slaves practiced their own systematic forms of economic production, exchange, and consumption. Hauser compares the findings from a number of previously excavated sites and presents new analyses that reinterpret these collections in the context of island-wide trading networks."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: History, Blacks, Pottery, Economic conditions, Excavations (Archaeology), Slavery, Jamaica, economic conditions, Slavery, caribbean area, Jamaica, antiquities, Jamaica, history, Black people
Places: Jamaica
Time periods: 18th century
LC classification: HT1096 .H38 2008