Slavery Before Race by Hayes Katherine Howlett

Author:Hayes, Katherine Howlett.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2013-04-08T04:00:00+00:00

FIGURE 4.4. English flint, (a) flakes and (b) heavily utilized cores (photos by author).

Compared to the range of manufacturing techniques seen in the precolonial quartz assemblage, the plantation material shows a greater variability of techniques and skills. Certainly this range of variation could have been produced by a labor population that brought quite different backgrounds and traditions in the use of stone for tools. Why was it even necessary, though? Very few spent or broken iron blades, awls, or chisels were found in the plantation deposits. A wealthy operation like the Sylvesters could have afforded plenty of tools for their laborers, and Nathaniel’s 1680 probate inventory listed iron tools, chains, and pots, but their estimated value was enormous. Iron tools appear to have been tightly controlled items, perhaps necessitating the apprenticeship of other laborers to the Manhanset, who were able to make what they needed with the materials at hand.

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