Consumerism, Market Access, and Mobility at St. Barbara's Freehold, St. Mary's City, Maryland

Author(s): Lauren K. McMillan; Julia King

Year: 2018

Summary

The St. Barbara's Freehold Tract in St. Mary’s City served as the center of a large plantation owned by the Hicks and Mackall families from the mid 18th century to the end of the Civil War. At the plantation’s height in the early 19th century, 40 people were held in bondage, living in log quarters scattered across several hundred acres. In 2016, archaeologists from St. Mary's College of Maryland identified and tested a complex of quarters dating to ca. 1750-1815. Archaeological and historical evidence indicates that those enslaved at St. Barbara's Freehold had wide social and exchange networks spanning beyond the plantation and city borders; such networks contributed to the array of consumer goods recovered from the site.

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Consumerism, Market Access, and Mobility at St. Barbara's Freehold, St. Mary's City, Maryland. Lauren K. McMillan, Julia King. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441349)

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Keywords

Temporal Keywords
1750-1815

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): 297