Acknowledgements 1 Friendly and Lovely, Though Small Background and approach The problems with connecting materiality to landscapes, and ideology to materiality 2 The Setting Positioning research locally Positioning research regionally Concluding remarks 3 Theory and Methodology Ideology The dialectic Class Poverty Race Gender Capitalism as a heuristic device for colonial Saba The socio-spatial dialectic Interpretation, sources, and postcolonialsm A theoretical structure for discerning the social and material vectors of class, race, and gender in pre-emancipation colonial Saba Closing remarks 4 Saba in the Documentary Record The sources and their history Saba during the early colonial period Saba during the seventeenth century Saba during the eighteenth century Saba during the nineteenth century Saba into the twentieth century Closing remarks 5 Excavated Plantation Contexts Fieldwork procedures Excavation Finds, features, and soils Off-site processing of artifacts Site mapping SB 004: Spring Bay Sugar and Indigo Plantation SB 001: Flat Point Sugar and Indigo Plantation SB 002: Flat Point well SB 003: Flat Point indigo vats SB 007: Spring Bay Flat SB 038: Core Gut Bay The Bottom sugar plantation Saban plantations and the acquisition of slave labour Spatial analysis of sugar plantations as a means for identifying enslaved African housing Enslaved African dry stone houses in Caribbean contexts Indigo production on Saba Closing remarks 6 Excavated Non-Plantation Contexts SB 037: The Fort Bay ridge site SB 036: The Bottom privy pit SB 027: Palmetto Point SB 026: Middle Island SB 039: Upper Hell’s Gate animal shelter SB 022: Little Rendezvouz SB 050: Thais Hill trash pit SB 025: Cow Pasture village cistern Closing remarks 7 Interpreting Race, Class, and Gender in Saba’s Domestic Spaces and Material Culture Housing, domestic architecture, and cisterns “The House”, class, and Saban culture Material culture in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Saba Diet Burial practices 8 The Social and Material Vectors of Race, Class, and Gender in pre-Emancipation Colonial Saba Seascapes, landscapes, and the “incomplete hegemony” Landscapes of class Landscapes of race Landscapes of gender Class in pre-emancipation colonial Saba Race and slavery in pre-emancipation colonial Saba Gender in pre-emancipation colonial Saba Interpreting Saba’s landscapes of race, class, and gender in its pre-emancipation colonial archaeology Differentiating between poverty, slavery, and low class in pre-emancipation colonial Saba Perspectives of landscapes and poverties Closing remarks References Appendices Tables Spring Bay boiling house Flat Point boiling house Spring Bay Flat boiling house English summary Samenvatting Curriculum Vitae
