Power and practice on the plantation: An historical archaeology of slavery in Guadeloupe

Heather Gibson, Postdoctoral Fellow, French Atlantic History Group, Dept of History, McGill. "This paper reports on historical and archaeological research at Habitation La Mahaudière, an 18th- and 19th-century sugar plantation on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. Through the examination of a trial involving the owner of the estate, along with architectural and material culture remains recovered from the laborers' village, I explore relations of power, household economies, and daily practice on the plantation."