ABSTRACT
The Hermitage Plantation is a historical museum that opened for tours in 1889. It was the plantation home of Andrew Jackson, a major public figure in the history of the United States. As the seventh president of the United States, he is remembered as the stoic and unmovable "Old Hickory," hero of New Orleans, the architect of Indian removal, and the father of Jacksonian Democracy. Archaeologists have in several cases investigated historic sites from an anthropological perspective of the household. One of the central goals of this work is to communicate with archaeologist's ways we can forward our analyses of captive African households by considering the practice of multiple family cooperative domestic exchanges. Included in the function and meaning of household and home-space are the spiritual and cultural needs the collective household fulfilled for captive inhabitants. Although much of the communication between captive peoples went unnoticed by enslavers, landscape served as a meaningful aspect of plantation construction.
