Transatlantic Connections in Colonial and Post-colonial Haiti: Archaeometric Evidence for Taches Noires Glazed Tableware
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Transatlantic Connections in Colonial and Post-colonial Haiti: Archaeometric Evidence for Taches Noires Glazed Tableware Imported from Albissola, Italy to Fort Liberté, Haiti Simone Casale 1,2 & Joseph S. Jean 1,2 & Claudio Capelli 3 & Dennis Braekmans 1,4,5,6 & Patrick Degryse 1,6 & Corinne Hofman 1,2 Accepted: 27 August 2020/ # The Author(s) 2020
Abstract This paper presents the first archaeometrical data on colonial glazed wares (taches noires) imported in Haiti (Fort Liberté). The analysis evidenced the exclusive presence of Italian taches noires products, dated before 1820 and related to the colonial era. The presence of English wares next to colonial materials demonstrated continuity in the use of landscape after the Independence and the establishment of international trade relationships between the state of Haiti and the British Empire. Results are an important step forward in the understanding of production and movement of the Taches noires ware, which were exported globally between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Keywords Colonial ceramics . Haiti . Archaeometry . Ceramic technology . Glaze analysis
Introduction The year 1804 marked a fundamental change in the history of the Americas. The colony of Saint-Domingue, after several years of war, declared its independence from the French Empire. Although much has been recently written on the Haitian revolution and on the political transformation of the French colony (e.g., Dillon and Drexler 2016; Dubois 2005; Dupuy 2019; Garraway 2008; Geggus 2014; Geggus and Fiering 2009; Ghachem 2012; Gómez 2017; Grüner 2019; Heath 2006; Horne 2015; Munro and Walcott-Hackshaw 2006; Nesbitt 2008), little is known on the practical changes that
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International Journal of Historical Archaeology
occurred in the daily lives of the emancipated enslaved population during the first years after the independence. Colonial and post-colonial written sources usually comprise documents written by elites (Kelly 2013:2-3), excluding the rest of the population from key narratives. These sources usually leave out the life and experience of slaves and marginalized people, representing a restricted image of the society at that time. Practical changes in the daily life of marginalized peoples are often actively obscured and hidden in the background of major historical events. Caribbean historical archaeology offers the opportunity to directly observe the cultural materials of the “invisible” people (Kelly 2013:2-3) and emancipated African diasporic communities, shedding light on their daily lives and of social changes during the colonial and post-colonial period. Several decades of research in the Caribbean on plantation socio-organization, and slave and maroon communities in the Anglophone colonies
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