The Archaeology of Northern Slavery and Freedom

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ID20007066
AuthorsJames A Delle (0000-0001-8519-7161, corresponding author)
Year2019
Publication date2019-06-05
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueArchaeology of Northern Slavery and Freedom (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity Press of Florida (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/j.ctvx06xhc
OpenAlexW2967387765
Open LibraryOL29408695M
ISBN9780813057132
LanguageEN
Citations received12

Although African slavery in the United States is generally associated with the South, the institution also existed in northern states as late as the 1840s, especially in large urban centers, such as Philadelphia and New York. Contrariwise, freed African Americans in the region established rural communities all their own and actively resisted the institution as a whole. The newest volume proposed for inclusion in the American Experience in Archaeological Perspective series, written by one of the leading scholars in the field of African Diaspora archaeology, is a synthetic analysis of recently published work on the subject (although no monograph exists on northern slavery). This volume provides a new perspective on the intricate connection between slavery and freedom in the United States. As Delle argues, scholars cannot understand slavery "in the absence of freedom."

Archaeology · Geography · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · 1861-1865 · Antislavery movements · Civil War · Slavery · united states

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