"Better Than We"

This study aims to understand the materiality of Sabäs ideological landscape during its pre-emancipation colonial period. This is accomplished by understanding the dialectics, or inseparable relationships, between Sabäs geography, locally-situated ideologies of class, race, and gender in Sabäs social environment, and the processes behind these ideological relations that contributed to the material things that are found across Sabäs social landscape.

This provides insights into archaeologies of poverty, approaches towards differentiating between low class and slavery in the archaeological record, and the importance of powered perspectives in defining and situating poverty on local and regional scales.