Cultural Brokerage and Pluralism on the Silver Bluff Plantation and Trading Post on the Carolina Frontier
Author(s): Brandy Joy; Charles Cobb; Tammy Herron
Year: 2015
Summary
Irish émigré George Galphin established a trading post on the Carolina frontier in the mid-1700s. His skills working with Native Americans provided him considerable wealth through the deerskin trade. He was widely regarded among the Creek Nation, and he represented the Carolina colony on several occasions in major negotiations with Native American groups. Galphin parlayed his wealth into a considerable plantation on his trading post property, and his plantation at Silver Bluff became one of the largest slave-holding estates on the frontier. Excavations at Silver Bluff have provided a considerable assemblage of artifacts relating to a multi-cultural milieu of Native Americans, enslaved Africans, and Europeans. Attribute-based analyses of the collections based on DAACS protocols shed light on the organization of plantation and trading post space, and on how the frontier experience contrasted with lifeways in the interior of the Carolina colony.
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Cultural Brokerage and Pluralism on the Silver Bluff Plantation and Trading Post on the Carolina Frontier. Brandy Joy, Charles Cobb, Tammy Herron. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Seattle, Washington. 2015 ( tDAR id: 433725)
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Keywords
General
DAACS
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Frontier
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piedmont
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Plantation
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South Carolina
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South East
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Trading Post
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
18th Century
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 290