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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Plantation life"”.
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Bargaining in a Labor Regime: Plantation Life and the Politics of Development in Sri Lanka
… among Malaiyaha ("Hill Country") Tamil tea plantation residents in contemporary Sri Lanka. It draws on one year of field research (2008-2009) conducted during state emergency rule in Sri Lanka amongst Malaiyaha Tamil plantation residents, migrant laborers, and community members responding to …
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An Archaeological Examination of a Family Cemetery in the South Carolina Low Country
… have been conducted at nineteenth century rice plantation near Coosawhatchie, South Carolina. This site has yielded an amazing assortment of artifacts as well as multiple structures associated with plantation life in the Antebellum South. It was during the course of this work that a long …
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Bone Artifacts at Mont Repose: Possible Motivationos for Production and Trade
… historical sites. At Mont Repose, a rice plantation inhabited during colonial and antebellum times, a structure has been partially excavated. Included in a collection of bone artifacts unearthed from this site are bone buttons, bone toothbrushes, bone handfan parts, bone lice combs, and …
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The Making of the Ahupuaa of Laie into a Gathering Place and Plantation: The Creation of an Alternative Space to Capitalism
… is a labor history of the Laie sugar plantation between 1865 and 1931. It explores intercultural and race relations that were inherent to colonial and plantation processes in Hawaii. Particular attention is given to the role of religion in advancing the colonial project. In 1865 Mormon …
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Voices of Jim Crow: Early Urban African American English in the Segregated South
… The early urban centers of African American life in the South that followed the abolition of slavery and disintegration of plantation life have seldom been investigated with respect to the development of AAE. This study examines precisely those sites looking at AAE in three Southern urban …
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The Kongolese Atlantic: Central African Slavery & Culture from Mayombe to Haiti
… objects to address the material problems of plantation life. Finally, I argue the persistence of these spiritual practices demonstrates a remarkable durability of Kongolese ontology on both sides of the Kongolese Atlantic world.</p><p>My research produces new information about the history of …
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Exploring the Myths of the Southern Lady Through the Writings of Elizabeth Scott Neblett
No abstract prepared.
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Faunal Analysis and Comparative Study of Mont Repose Plantation
… underway within a structure at the Mont Repose plantation site located near Coosawhatchie, South Carolina. This structure has yielded an array of artifacts including numerous faunal remains. Species recovered thus far include domestic species such as cow, pig, and chicken. The wild species …
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Once proud princes: planters and plantation culture in Louisiana's northeast Delta, from the First World War through the Great Depression
… Civil War, remained firmly grounded in this old plantation culture. The economic depression of the 1890s and the coming of the boll weevil in the early 1900s, however, signaled a gradual decline that turned into full-blown dissolution in the years following the First World War. Old families, both …