Brunswick and New Hanover Counties, North Carolina (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephanie A Sterling.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Port of Call: Archaeologies of Labor and Movement through Ports", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The historic tidal rice plantation waterways that form a patchwork of chasms visible from space are stark reminders of the impact the rice industry had in the Lower Cape Fear, but their origins are frequently overlooked. Dug by hand by enslaved men and women these waterways became the circulatory system that led...