Year: 1987
Type: article
Abstract: The skeletons of 17 Black slaves were excavated from an unmarked 18 th century cemetery in Montserrat, West Indies.A pharmaceutical phial found with one of the probable coffin burials bears the inscription OCT 29 1751.The date on the phial, skeletal analysis and ethnohistorical records suggest the skeletons are those of Black slaves, possibly from the nearby Bransby Plantation.Evidence of pathological conditions include enthesopathies, osteoarthritis, anemia, malnutrition, a high incidence of fractures and one possible case of lepromatous leprosy.Ages at death suggest that the adult females were outliving the males.
Source: Annals of Carnegie Museum
DOI: 10.5962/p.330592
Authors: Robert W. Mann, Lee Meadows, William M. Bass, David R. Watters
Language: English
Subfield: Archeology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4290997110