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Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/ 9780295748733 Dominica, a place once described as "Nature's Island, " was rich in biodiversity and seemingly abundant water, but in the eighteenth century a brief, failed attempt by colonial administrators to replace cultivation of varied plant species with sugarcane caused widespread ecological and social disruption. Illustrating how deeply intertwined plantation slavery was with the environmental devastation...

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An excellent example of applying petrographic and chemical analysis to coarse earthenwares of the African Diaspora in order to examine the social networks created by enslaved laborers on Jamaica within the larger colonial and capitalist systems. . . . A wonderful contribution to Caribbean historical archaeology. "--"H-Net Reviews" "Uses pottery fragments and other data to examine an informal, underground economy that existed among slaves, isla...