ABSTRACT

This volume represented a compilation of interdisciplinary research being done throughout the American South and the Caribbean by historians, archaeologists, architects, anthropologists, and other scholars on the topic of slavery and plantations. It synthesizes materials known through the 1980s and reports on key sites of excavation and survey in the Carolinas, Barbados, Louisiana and other locations. Contributors include many of the leading figures in historical archaeology.

chapter 1|12 pages

Introduction

Theresa Singleton

part I|20 pages

Research Strategies

part II|62 pages

Settlement

chapter 4|28 pages

Plantation Settlement from Slavery to Tenancy

An Example from a Piedmont Plantation in South Carolina

part III|66 pages

Artifact Patterns

chapter 6|20 pages

The Planter Class

The Archaeological Record at Drayton Hall

chapter 7|20 pages

Social and Economic Status on the Coastal Plantation

An Archaeological Perspective

part V|96 pages

Afro-American Traditions

chapter 10|24 pages

Establishing Historical Probabilities for Archaeological Interpretations

Slave Demography of Two Plantations in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1740–1820

chapter 12|28 pages

An Afro-Jamaican Slave Settlement

Archaeological Investigations at Drax Hall

part VI|46 pages

Transformation

chapter 14|26 pages

Historical Perspectives on Black Tenant Farmer Material Culture

The Henry C. Long General Store Ledger at Waverly Plantation, Mississippi