![]() | Slavery before Race: Europeans, Africans, and Indians at Long Island''s Sylvester Manor Plantation, 1651-1884 Subjects: Slavery -- New York (State) -- Shelter Island; African Americans -- New York (State) -- Shelter Island -- History -- To 1863; Indians of North America -- New York (State) -- History; Shelter Island (N.Y.) -- Race relations -- History; Plantation life -- N; 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. Hayes Katherine Howlett : Katherine Howlett Hayes is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from UC Berkeley, and an M.A. in Historical Archaeology from the University of Massachusetts Boston. |
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