Costly signaling and gendered social strategies among slaves in the eighteenth-century chesapeake: An archaeological perspective

American Antiquity

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 19-43

  Galle, Julian E ^a  

^a The Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery   (United States)

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EID: 77749336542     PISSN: 00027316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7183/0002-7316.75.1.19     Document Type: Article

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