Blurred Boundaries: Internal and Illicit Plantation Economies
Author(s): Kevin Fogle
Year: 2015
Summary
Craft production, hired time, personal cotton plots, theft, and diverse trade networks created a patchwork of economic opportunities for several hundred slaves on Witherspoon Island, a 19th century cotton plantation in the Pee Dee region of South Carolina. This paper explores the impact of household and community involvement in a myriad of economic practices that were at times sanctioned, expressly forbidden, or tacitly accepted by the plantation management. When the archaeological and documentary records are overlaid, they offer a fragmentary glimpse of production, consumption and exchange within this large enslaved community on an absentee plantation.
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Blurred Boundaries: Internal and Illicit Plantation Economies. Kevin Fogle. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Seattle, Washington. 2015 ( tDAR id: 433851)
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Keywords
General
African Diaspora
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Consumption
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Economy
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Plantation
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
19th 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): 244