An archaeology of Black markets : local ceramics and economies in eighteenth-century Jamaica / Mark W. Hauser ; foreword by Jerald T. Milanich.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-261) and index.

Historical archaeology of the Caribbean plantation -- Markets of contention : historical and legal perspectives on informal economies in eighteenth-century Jamaica -- Between urban and rural -- Routing pots : ceramics of the African diaspora -- Rooting pots : Jamaican colonial ceramics -- Locating enslaved craft production : petrographic and chemical analysis of eighteenth-century Jamaican pottery -- Epilogue : boundaries and identities -- Appendix A. Assignment of samples from sites to ceramic groups -- Appendix B. Instrumental neutron activation analysis of eighteenth-century pottery from Jamaica.

"In eighteenth-century Jamaica, an informal, underground economy existed among enslaved laborers. Mark Hauser uses pottery fragments to examine their trade networks and to understand how enslaved and free Jamaicans created communities that transcended plantation boundaries." "An Archaeology of Black Markets utilizes both documentary and archaeological evidence to reveal how slaves practiced their own systematic forms of economic production, exchange, and consumption. Hauser compares the findings from a number of previously excavated sites and presents new analyses that reinterpret these collections in the context of island-wide trading networks."--Jacket.

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