Abstract
My second book The Archaeology of Alcohol and Drinking (2008) explores the contributions historical archaeologists have made to our understanding of alcohol in society. It examines archaeological evidence for alcohol production and drinking at a cave site in Barbados used by enslaved peoples in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Drawing on evidence for traditional West African drinking practices I argue that the cave, a liminal space on the plantation landscape, provided enslaved peoples from surrounding sugar estates with a subterranean shield from the panoptic gaze of plantation owners. Moreover, alcohol use at the site facilitated a symbolic form of escape that I call alcoholic marronage.
| Original language | English |
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| Publisher | University Press of Florida |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-0-8130-3290-0 |
| State | Published - 2008 |
