Research Articles
Cane River: the archaeology of “free people of colour” in colonial Louisiana
Authors:
Kevin MacDonald ,
UCL Institute of Archaeology, GB
David Morgan,
UCL Institute of Archaeology, GB
Fiona Handley
UCL Institute of Archaeology, GB
Abstract
The overseas dispersal and subsequent history of people of African descent – the African diaspora – has attracted much interest in recent decades from anthropologists, archaeologists and historians, particularly in the USA. But such studies have seldom been undertaken by archaeologists with experience of West Africa and its material culture. In a new project on the African heritage in colonial Louisiana, members of the Institute are collaborating with American colleagues to combine expertise on cultural contacts in the Americas between Native Americans,
Africans and European colonists.
How to Cite:
MacDonald, K., Morgan, D. and Handley, F., 2002. Cane River: the archaeology of “free people of colour” in colonial Louisiana. Archaeology International, 6, pp.52–55. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/ai.0615
Published on
23 Oct 2002.
Peer Reviewed
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