Type of Document	Thesis
Author	Kidd, Robert Steven
URN	etd-07132006-000626
Title	An Archaeological Examination of Slave Life in the Danish West Indies: Analysis of the Material Culture of a Caribbean Slave Village Illustrating Economic Provisioning and Acquisition Preferences.
Degree	Master of Science
Department	Anthropology, Department of
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Glen H. Doran Committee Chair Bruce Grindal Committee Member Elizabeth Peters Committee Member
Keywords	Plantation Archaeology Caribbean Slave
Date of Defense	2006-07-07
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract This thesis will examine the artifact assemblages from three slave structures excavated in 1998 as part of a National Park Service project. The excavations of the three structures provided the researcher with a wealth of data regarding the daily lives of the enslaved population on Water Island. The secure contexts from which these artifacts were recovered have allowed the researcher to compare the artifacts, in particular the ceramics recovered from the slave cabins to those recovered from the plantation owner’s house. Through analysis of the ceramics recovered from these two unique contexts, this thesis will illustrate the existence of consumer choice among the slaves who through their own enterprises were able to amass small amounts of wealth with which they purchased the overwhelming majority if not all of their material possessions. The remains of these possessions, reveal that the slaves living at Carolina Point Plantation expressed their culture through the acquisition of material goods.
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