Rethinking “Resistant Accommodation”: Toward an Archaeology of African-American Lives in Southern New England, 1638–1800 Export

@article{citeulike:5051197, abstract = {Scholarship concerning the lives of enslaved African Americans in southern New England has shifted rapidly from outdated models of acculturation to conflict-driven models of domination and resistance. With the assumption of conflict as the outcome of all power relations, both economic production and historical contextuality have been overlooked, with slavery systems in New England simply equated with other regions of the Atlantic world, rather than compared and contrasted. This essay reconsiders contests over power in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century New England. Drawing on the work of Greene (1966), Piersen (1988), and others, I argue that the system of slavery in the region may represent an anomalous case in terms of the means of control or the means of resistance. By examining demographic patterns, economic production, and agricultural landscapes in Rhode Island's East Bay, I argue that there may be more to be learned from William D. Piersen's (1988, p. 143) concept of ” resistant accommodation” as a middle ground between the two extremes of the theoretical spectrum. The essay concludes with suggestions for further research on the archaeology of African-American lives in the region.}, author = {Garman, James C.}, citeulike-article-id = {5051197}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1022618431591}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/m251537705v10207}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1023/A:1022618431591}, journal = {International Journal of Historical Archaeology}, keywords = {17c, 18c, african-american, black, northern, slavery}, month = {June}, number = {2}, pages = {133--160}, posted-at = {2009-07-04 01:07:39}, priority = {4}, title = {Rethinking ” Resistant Accommodation”: Toward an Archaeology of African-American Lives in Southern New England, 1638–1800}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1022618431591}, volume = {2}, year = {1998} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5051197 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5051197 N2 - Scholarship concerning the lives of enslaved African Americans in southern New England has shifted rapidly from outdated models of acculturation to conflict-driven models of domination and resistance. With the assumption of conflict as the outcome of all power relations, both economic production and historical contextuality have been overlooked, with slavery systems in New England simply equated with other regions of the Atlantic world, rather than compared and contrasted. This essay reconsiders contests over power in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century New England. Drawing on the work of Greene (1966), Piersen (1988), and others, I argue that the system of slavery in the region may represent an anomalous case in terms of the means of control or the means of resistance. By examining demographic patterns, economic production, and agricultural landscapes in Rhode Island's East Bay, I argue that there may be more to be learned from William D. Piersen's (1988, p. 143) concept of “resistant accommodation” as a middle ground between the two extremes of the theoretical spectrum. The essay concludes with suggestions for further research on the archaeology of African-American lives in the region. IS - 2 JF - International Journal of Historical Archaeology EP - 160 TI - Rethinking “Resistant Accommodation”: Toward an Archaeology of African-American Lives in Southern New England, 1638–1800 VL - 2 SP - 133 KW - 17c KW - 18c KW - african-american KW - black KW - northern KW - slavery AU - Garman, James PY - 1998/06/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1022618431591 ER -