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| ISBN: | 9780814724699
0814724698
9780814785775
0814785778
9780814770900
0814770908
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| Notes: | Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of California, Berkeley, 2008.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | 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 the legal codification of races. Using the historic Sylvester Manor Plantation site turned archaeological dig as a case study, Hayes draws on artifa.
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| Other form: | Print version: Hayes, Katherine Howlett. Slavery before race. New York : New York University Press, 2013 9780814785775
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