Se realiza una revisión de trabajos arqueológicos sobre afro-americanos según estudios de la diáspora y basados en la literatura que define la experiencia negra en Norteamérica. La atención se centra en el establecimiento de la libertad mediante la fundación de comunidades de esclavos fugitivos y asentamientos independientes de personas libres, así como en el uso e interpretación de la historia y teoría de la diáspora africana, en particular por parte de arqueólogos que utilizan el conocimiento de la diáspora para lograr un cambio político actual.
RESUMOO trabalho realiza uma revisão de trabalhos arqueológicos afro-americanos sobre estudos da diáspora, baseados na literatura que define a experiência negra na América do Norte. A atenção centra-se no estabelecimento da liberdade mediante a fundação de comunidades de escravos fugitivos e assentamentos independentes de pessoas livres, assim como, no uso e interpretação da história e teoria da diáspora africana, em particular por parte de arqueólogos que utilizam o conhecimento da diáspora para alcançar uma mudança política atual.
This enlightening study employs the tools of archaeology to uncover a new historical perspective on the Underground Railroad. Unlike previous histories of the Underground Railroad, which have focused on frightened fugitive slaves and their benevolent abolitionist accomplices, this book focuses instead on free African American communities, the crucial help they provided to individuals fleeing slavery, and the terrain where those flights to freedom occurred. This book foregrounds several small, rural hamlets on the treacherous southern edge of the free North in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. It demonstrates how landscape features such as waterways, iron forges, and caves played a key role in the conduct and effectiveness of the Underground Railroad. Rich in oral histories, maps, memoirs, and archaeological investigations, this examination of the “geography of resistance” tells the new, powerful, and inspiring story of African Americans ensuring their own liberation in the midst of oppression.
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