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Markets, consumer choices, ironworking and ceramic-making all feature in an archaeological account of colonial Jamaica that looks beyond major settlements and plantation systems. The research places African Jamaican everyday life alongside the island’s better-known colonial sites. Published by the University of Alabama Press in December 2011, Out of Many, One People: The Historical Archaeology of Colonial Jamaica brings together results from nearly three decades of historical archaeology. A description published by Syracuse University’s Maxwell School outlines a volume spanning sites on land and at sea. Its subjects include the early Spanish period at Seville la Nueva and the development of Port Royal as the first major British settlement. Researchers also examine the complexities of sugar and coffee plantations and conditions before and after the abolition of slavery. Within that broad scope, the book gives attention to economic activity and material traditions among African Jamaicans. The university’s description identifies the development of Jamaica’s internal marketing system, consumer behaviour among enslaved people, ironworking and ceramic-making as areas of investigation. The development of a sovereign Maroon society at Nanny Town is another subject. Its inclusion places Maroon society within an account that also considers colonial settlements, plantations and the ways people lived within and reacted against systems of inequality. The range of subjects is the book’s central attraction for readers interested in less familiar approaches to Jamaican history. Rather than treating colonial life solely through prominent buildings or administrative accounts, the research considers markets, production and consumption as subjects worthy of historical investigation. The Maxwell School’s description also connects the volume to heritage preservation. By assembling research across different sites and aspects of daily life, it presents archaeology as a way to understand and preserve evidence of Jamaica’s complex colonial past.
Markets, consumer choices, ironworking and ceramic-making all feature in an archaeological account of colonial Jamaica that looks beyond major settlements and plantation systems. The research places African Jamaican everyday life alongside the island’s better-known colonial sites.
Published by the University of Alabama Press in December 2011, Out of Many, One People: The Historical Archaeology of Colonial Jamaica brings together results from nearly three decades of historical archaeology. A description published by Syracuse University’s Maxwell School outlines a volume spanning sites on land and at sea.
Its subjects include the early Spanish period at Seville la Nueva and the development of Port Royal as the first major British settlement. Researchers also examine the complexities of sugar and coffee plantations and conditions before and after the abolition of slavery.
Within that broad scope, the book gives attention to economic activity and material traditions among African Jamaicans. The university’s description identifies the development of Jamaica’s internal marketing system, consumer behaviour among enslaved people, ironworking and ceramic-making as areas of investigation.
The development of a sovereign Maroon society at Nanny Town is another subject. Its inclusion places Maroon society within an account that also considers colonial settlements, plantations and the ways people lived within and reacted against systems of inequality.
The range of subjects is the book’s central attraction for readers interested in less familiar approaches to Jamaican history. Rather than treating colonial life solely through prominent buildings or administrative accounts, the research considers markets, production and consumption as subjects worthy of historical investigation.
The Maxwell School’s description also connects the volume to heritage preservation. By assembling research across different sites and aspects of daily life, it presents archaeology as a way to understand and preserve evidence of Jamaica’s complex colonial past.
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