| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.5

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Book Review

Caribbean and Latin America

Laurie A. Wilkie and Paul Farnsworth. Sampling Many Pots: An Archaeology of Memory and Tradition at a Bahamian Plantation. Gainesville: University of Florida Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 354. $65.00.

Archaeology has made a significant contribution to understanding the texture of slave lives in the Americas. One of the central problems in writing about slave identities is the lack of evidence from the slaves' perspective, and the material artifacts uncovered through archaeological digs enable us to re-appraise life in diverse slave communities. This book, based on excavations at Clifton Plantation, New Providence, Bahamas, is scrupulously researched and makes a significant contribution to a developing area of archaeological research. Laurie A. Wilkie and Paul Farnsworth meld together historical data, ethnographic studies, and archaeological evidence to illuminate the lives of African and creole slaves from 1812 to 1833. The originality of this study centers on inquiry into how "a sense of memory may have influenced the material world enslaved and apprenticed Africans built for themselves" (p. 309). Archaeological evidence is skillfully used to explore the relationship of memory to materiality and to demonstrate how slaves at Clifton forged a multi-ethnic community with a communal identity while maintaining aspects of particular ethnic traditions.

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