Abstract
Todd Ahlman provides an engaging examination of the existing historical evidence and available knowledge regarding the physical form of architecture and living environments of the enslaved on St. Kitts. The next set of chapters continue along this theme, exploring dwellings in Jamaica, though Hayden Bassett goes beyond the architectural and discusses the impact of kinship and social hierarchy within the village spectrum of status, demonstrating the bonds that formed household units, the motivations and priorities they exhibited, and the constructed spaces that housed them. James Delle and Kristen Fellows follow this by connecting the integration of modes of production, exchange, and trade within house-yard compounds at Marshall's Pen village in Jamaica, creating specialized areas for economic pursuits and productive activities.