Description:
The Archaeology of Slavery grapples with both the benefits and complications of a comparative approach to the archaeology of slavery. Contributors from different archaeological subfields, including American, African, prehistoric, and historical, consider how to define slavery, identify it in the archaeological record, and study slavery as a diachronic process that covers enslavement to emancipation and beyond. Themes include how to define slavery, how to identify slavery archaeologically, enslavement and emancipation, and the politics and ethics of slavery-related research.
Review Quotes:
"This volume brings the archaeological study of slavery to a global level."--CHOICE
"Lydia Wilson Marshall and colleagues have performed an essential service for those working across disciplines on the global reach and temporal range of human bondage. The Archaeology of Slavery is more than its ambitious title intends: it is an impressive collection of comparative world history, of methodologies within and beyond the disciplines, and of muscular theorizing. This will be our go-to collection for years ahead."--James F. Brooks, author of Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship and Community in the Southwest Borderlands