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Plantation sites, especially those in the southeastern United States, have long dominated the archaeological study of slavery. These antebellum estates, how­ever, are not representative of the range of geographic locations and time periods in which slaving has occurred. The Ar­chaeology of Slavery: A Comparative Ap­proach to Captivity and Coercion, edited by Lydia Wilson Marshall, investigates slavery in diverse settings and offers a broad framework for the interpretation of slaving. Essays cover the potential material representations of slavery, slave own­ers’ strategies of coercion and enslaved people’s methods of resisting this co­ercion, and the legacies of slavery as confronted by formerly enslaved people and their descendants. Among the peo­ples, sites, and periods examined are a late nineteenth-century Chinese laborer population in Carlin, Nevada; a castle slave habitation at San Domingo and a more elite trading center at nearby Juf­fure in the Gambia; two eighteenth-cen­tury plantations in Dominica; the Hueda Kingdom (Benin) in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; plantations in Zan­zibar; and three fugitive slave sites on Mauritius—an underground lava tunnel, a mountain, and a karst cave.

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This intelligent, timely, diversely focused, diversely assembled, and at times playful collection of essays provides readers with ways of thinking about, and thinking through, Latour and various dimensions of his work in relation to current issues and concerns in rhetoric and composition studies. This is a collection that will be used both widely and frequently, one sure to generate a lot of discussion. --Jody Shipka, author of Toward a Composition Made Whole

This intelligent, timely, diversely focused, diversely assembled, and at times playful collection of essays provides readers with ways of thinking about, and thinking through, Latour and various dimensions of his work in relation to current issues and concerns in rhetoric and composition studies. This is a collection that will be used both widely and frequently, one sure to generate a lot of discussion. Jody Shipka, author of <i>Toward a Composition Made Whole </i>

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Lydia Wilson Marshall is an assistant professor of anthropology at De­Pauw University, USA. She has published essays in the Journal of African Archaeology, African Archaeological Review, and Kenya Past and Present.

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