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Dipt, Painted, and Printed Wares: Ceramic Assemblages from Enslaved Homes as Evidence of Personal Choice at James Madison's Montpelier (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Kimberly A Trickett.

For the past four years the Montpelier Archaeology Department has focused its research on the late-18th and early-19th-century enslaved community representing field hands, domestic servants, and skilled laborers and artisans. This paper will focus on the ceramic assemblages excavated from those areas and will discuss similarities and differences in decorative styles, vessel forms, and ceramic types using a vessel-based analysis. Decorative styles commonly found on white refined earthenwares will...


Looking for Data in All the Right Places: Recreating the Enslaved Community at Mount Vernon (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Molly H Kerr. Esther White.

At his death in 1799, George Washington recorded 318 enslaved people at Mount Vernon.  This number does not reflect the numbers of individuals who worked the property during the entire tenure of the Washington family from 1735 – 1858, and it does not begin to address individuals enslaved on the numerous properties owned by Washington or the vast acreage he administered on behalf of the Custis family.  To better understand the lives of all those enslaved individuals, Mount Vernon’s digital...


The Maritime Taskscape Of An Enslaved Community (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Mackenzie M Tabeling.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Landscapes Above and Below in Southern Contexts (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. While the concept of “taskscape” has been introduced and utilized within archaeological and historical study, this theoretical approach has an even greater potential to interpret complex archaeological and cultural maritime landscapes. With Somerset Place, near Creswell, North Carolina as a focus site, the...