Iron sails the seas: a maritime history of African diaspora iron technology
| Autor: | Candice Goucher |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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| Zdroj: | Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revue canadienne des études latino-américaines et caraïbes. 38:179-196 |
| ISSN: | 2333-1461 0826-3663 |
| Popis: | This paper explores the maritime history of ironworking in the African diaspora. Although iron metallurgy is usually thought of as a landlocked activity, blacksmiths were onboard most transatlantic voyages. Ships and dockyards became critical sites of this mobility and the resultant technology transfer. Apart from the necessary tools on voyages, every ship had a blacksmith, the highest paid among its specialist craftsmen. By the eighteenth century, iron-clad ships carried cargoes of iron and slag, as well as the enslaved ironworkers, across the Atlantic. Evidence for the African-derived technologies and the smiths who traveled the seas are found in the artifacts, archival records, and performance arts of the Atlantic world. Archaeological evidence presented from three different types of eighteenth-century British Caribbean sites confirms that the working of iron was critical to activities on land and sea and produced a high demand for specialized craftsmen, including African metallurgists. |
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