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Description: Map of Rhode Island, showing the location of Narragansett

TitleMap of Rhode Island, showing the location of Narragansett

Creator name (description)Drawing by Stephen Montalvo

Creator roleMapmaker

Object typeMap/Plan/Diagram

SubjectsRhode Island (R.I. : Island)

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The Landscapes of Northern Bondage

Robert K. Fitts

Cabin, Quarter, Plantation: Architecture and Landscapes of North American Slavery

When he wrote this essay in 1996, Robert K. Fitts had long been fascinated by the question of how people maintain control over a subjugated population without resorting to daily violence. Here he argues that eighteenth-century Narragansett planters employed spatial control to this end. By housing “bondsmen,” as he terms them here, within their own homes, Rhode Island...

Author

Robert K. Fitts

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.193-222

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00291.11

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22220&redirecttoanchor=75093

Chapter subject tags:Slaves--DwellingsNarragansett (R.I.)PlantationsDomestic spaceSegregationAlienation (Social psychology)

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