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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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 7|20 pages
Social and Economic Status on the Coastal Plantation
An Archaeological Perspective
part IV|31 pages
Foodways
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
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