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Social Status and Inter-Household Interactions Amongst a 19th Enslaved Community (2013)
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During the antebellum era, James Madison’s Montpelier was home to over one hundred enslaved African Americans. Within this broad community, distinctions in social status could have been apparent amongst the enslaved households, potentially creating a system of social hierarchy. At the same time, these households would have been connected to each other through a web of social interactions on a community wide basis. Utilizing crossmended ceramic vessels from five recently excavated enslaved...