Inhaltsangabe: "Better Than We" :

"Better Than We" : Landscapes and Materialities of Race, Class, and Gender in Pre-Emancipation Saba, Dutch Caribbean.

1. Verfasser:	Espersen, Ryan , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr:	Leiden : Sidestone Press, 2024.
Ausgabe:	1st ed.
Umfang/Format:	1 online resource (408 pages)
Schriftenreihe:	Taboui 8
ISBN:	9789464270808
DOI:	10.59641/zpw7cwqr
Parallelausgabe:	"Better Than We" : Landscapes and Materialities of Race, Class, and Gender in Pre-Emancipation Saba, Dutch Caribbean (Print version) \| ISSN: 9789464270785
Online-Zugang:	Available online

Inhaltsangabe:

Intro
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Friendly and Lovely, Though Small
Background and approach
The problems with connecting landscapes and ideology to material things
The Setting
Concluding remarks
Positioning research regionally
Positioning Research Locally
Theory and Methodology
Ideology
A Theoretical Structure for Discerning the Social and Material Vectors of Class, Race, and Gender on Saba
Interpretation, sources, and postcolonialism
The socio-spatial dialectic
Capitalism as a heuristic device for colonial Saba
Gender
Race
Poverty
Class
"Intersectionality"
The dialectic
Closing remarks
Saba in the Documentary Record
The sources and their history
Closing remarks
Saba after emancipation into the twentieth century
Nineteenth century Saba
Saba during the eighteenth century
Saba during the seventeenth century
Saba during the early colonial period
Excavated Plantation Contexts
SB 004 &amp
SB 007: Spring Bay Sugar and Indigo Plantation
Closing remarks
Indigo production on Saba
Enslaved African dry stone houses in Caribbean contexts
Spatial analysis of sugar plantations as a means for identifying enslaved African housing
Saban plantations and the acquisition of slave labour
The Bottom Sugar Plantation
SB 003 - Cove Bay Indigo Vats
SB 002 - Cove Bay Well
SB 001: Flat Point Sugar and Indigo Plantation
Excavated non-Plantation Contexts
SB 037: The Fort Bay ridge site
Closing Remarks
SB 025: Cow Pasture village cistern
SB 050: Thais Hill trash pit
SB 022: Little Rendezvouz
SB 039: Upper Hell's Gate animal shelter
SB 026: Middle Island
SB 027: Palmetto Point
SB 036: The Bottom, Privy Pit
Interpreting Race, Class, and Gender in Saba's Domestic Spaces and Material Culture.
Housing, domestic architecture, and cisterns
Burial practices
Diet
Material culture in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Saba
"The House", class, and Saban culture
The Social and Material Landscapes of Race, Class, and Gender in pre-Emancipation Colonial Saba
Closing remarks
Perspectives and landscapes of poverties
Differentiating between poverty, slavery, and low class in pre-emancipation colonial Saba
Interpreting Saba's landscapes of race, class, and gender in its pre-emancipation colonial archaeology
Gender in pre-emancipation colonial Saba
Race and slavery in pre-emancipation colonial Saba
Class in pre-emancipation colonial Saba
Landscapes of gender
Landscapes of race
Landscapes of class
Seascapes, landscapes, and the "incomplete hegemony"
References
Appendices
Figure 2: Relevant places and features on Saba.
Figure 3: Relevant archaeological sites on Saba with elevation map.
Figure 4: Map of Saba's approximate plantation boundaries, 1829.
Figure 5: Population of Saba, 1659-1937.
Figure 6 (top, left): Instances of Names, White Males.
Figure 7 (top, right): Instances of Names, Enslaved Males.
Figure 8 (bottom, left): Instances of Names, White Females.
Figure 9(bottom, right): Instances of Names, Enslaved Females.
Figure 10: Sales of Enslaved Africans per Year, 1723-1862, Saba.
Figure 11: Recorded Manumissions, 1822-1862, Saba.
Figure 12: Enslaved African Labour by Type, Saba, 1863.
Figure 13: View of Spring Bay from Kelbey's Ridge, before the storm of 23 December 2013. The ruins of the boiling house are visible in the lower middle of the photo.
Figure 14: Google Earth satellite image of Spring Bay, showing the boiling house and the possible structures parallel and immediately west of the yellow line. The deep wash channel from the 23 December 2013 storm is clearly visible in the center.
Figure 15: Facing northeast, boundary markers made of stacked stone extending to the boiling house, located in the background flush to the right of the tree in the center of the photo.
Figure 16: Eight-faceted purple bead from Spring Bay.
Figure 17: A bracelet of French slave trade beads manufactured in Nantes. Photo by staff of Castle of the Dukes of Brittany, used with permission.
Figure 18: Cowrie shell from SB 004, obverse.
Figure 19: Cowrie shell from SB 004, reverse.
Figure 20: SB 005
well and indigo processing vats at Spring Bay.
Figure 21: Spring Bay, Structure A, facing south.
Figure 22: Map of Spring Bay boiling house.
Figure 23: SB 004 sugar boiling house, zoomed in from atop Kelbey's Ridge, facing southwest.
Figure 24: SB 004 boiling house, showing the plastered cane juice trough leading from the cattle mill to the clarifier basin, facing northeast.
Figure 25: SB 004, sugar boiling house, showing clarifier basin set into the ground. Note the cane juice trough in the bottom right.
Figure 26: SB 004, boiling house, vantage point atop the cattle mill, facing northeast.
Figure 27: Map of Spring Bay Flat Plantation.
Figure 28: Spring Bay Flat boiling house, showing the furnace flue and damper, facing east.
Figure 29: Interior of Spring Bay Flat boiling house furnace flue, facing east. Note the twin arches of Ijssel brick.
Figure 30: SB 007, Boiling House, Surface, Ceramics by Décor.
Figure 31: Spring Bay Flat boiling house, facing north.
Figure 32: Spring Bay Flat boiling house, facing south.
Figure 33: Spring Bay Flat boiling house furnace, facing north.
Figure 34: Spring Bay Flat boiling house, facing west.
Figure 35: Spring Bay Flat, sugar boiling works.
Figure 36: View east towards Spring Bay Flat and the sugar works. The Big House is located on the small grassy knoll just above the structures visible in the center-right of the photo. Old Booby Hill (background), Spring Bay (lower center-left), and Flat
Figure 37: Spring Bay Flat, northern enslaved African domestic area
Figure 38: Spring Bay Flat, Structure C.
Figure 39: SB 007, Structure C, Ceramics by Décor.
Figure 40: Structure D: Median Date of Colonial Ceramics by Decade.
Figure 41: Structure D assemblage, with latch removed from top. The shell has a diameter of 45mm for scale.
Figure 42: Selected components of the lockbox assemblage including wrought nails, Cittarium pica shell, and the lock hinge.
Figure 43: SB 007, Structure D, Ceramics by Décor.
Figure 44: Spring Bay Flat, Structure E, facing south.
Figure 45: Spring Bay Flat, Structure E, looking down and facing north.
Figure 46: Structure E: Median Date of Colonial Ceramics by Decade.
Figure 47: SB 007, Structure E, Ceramics by Décor.
Figure 48: Spring Bay Flat, Structure F, facing north.
Figure 49 (below): Spring Bay Flat, Structure F, facing southeast.
Figure 50: SB 007, Structure F, Ceramics by Décor.
Figure 51: Spring Bay Flat, Structure H, facing south.
Figure 52: Spring Bay Flat, Structure H, facing northwest.
Figure 53: Spring Bay Flat, Structure J, facing north.
Figure 54: Map of Spring Bay Flat, west end.
Figure 55: Spring Bay Flat, Rock Tower 1.
Figure 56: Core Gut Bay, facing north.
Figure 57: Indigo processing site at Core Gut Bay, including the circular well in the foreground, supporting the scale rod. Note the plastic washed into the basin by ocean swells
Figure 58: Atop the ridge south of Core Gut Bay, showing the eroded channel, facing south.
Figure 59: Map of the Flat Point sugar boiling works.
Figure 60: Flat Point dry stone structures, facing west. Structure 2 is visible on the left, and Structure 1 along with a 2m scale rod can be seen on the right. The twinned lines of rocks in the lower right quadrant is a modern trail outline.
Figure 61: View from the Flat Point furnace to "The Mountain", looking west. Photo by the author.
Figure 62: The sugar boiling house after machine excavator clearing, facing north-northeast. Photo by the author.
Figure 63: Sugar boiling house, facing southeast. Photo by the author.
Figure 65: Roof tiles from the boiling house excavations. These are unique to Saba. Photo by the author.
Figure 64: Sugar boiling house, looking towards the cooking area. Facing north-northeast. Photo by the author.
Figure 66: Furnace of the Flat Point boiling house, with the firebox vents below, and the chimney flue above. Photo faces northeast. Photo by the author.
Figure 68: The cattle pen (Structure 2), facing north. Photo by the author.
Figure 67: Furnace of the Flat boiling house, showing a damper above and left of the firebox vents. Photo faces southwest. Photo by the author.
Figure 69: Structure 3, center, facing east. Photo by the author.
Figure 70: The Flat Point sugar boiling house along with the Structure 4 series, and Structures 5 to 7. Faces east. Photo by the author.
Figure 71: Structure 5, facing southeast, at a depth of 10cm after excavation. Note the hoe blade field tool in the upper left corner. Photo by the author.
Figure 72: Structure 5, facing southeast, 10cm depth. Photo by the author.

"Better Than We" : Landscapes and Materialities of Race, Class, and Gender in Pre-Emancipation Saba, Dutch Caribbean.

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