Slavery Before Race: Europeans, Africans, and Indians at Long Island's Sylvester Manor Plantation, 1651-1884

by Katherine Howlett Hayes

Book Overview

The study of slavery in the Americas generally assumes a basic racial hierarchy: Africans or those of African descent are usually the slaves, and white people usually the slaveholders. In this unique interdisciplinary work of historical archaeology, anthropologist Katherine Hayes draws on years of fieldwork on Shelter Island's Sylvester Manor to demonstrate how racial identity was constructed and lived before plantation slavery was racialized by...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814785778
• ISBN13: 9780814785775
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"