Magnolia Grove: A Comparative Study of Plantation Landscape and Architecture

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of Enslavement" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Magnolia Grove is an early-mid nineteenth century town house property in Greensboro, Alabama and it functioned as a largely self-sufficient farming operation with around 25 acres of land and multiple slaves living on site. Because of these features Magnolia Grove can be viewed as a smaller contained parallel to other plantations owned by Isaac Croom. This project is a comparative, regional study that looks at the built landscape through the comparison and creation of regional landscape patterns of plantations. By analyzing Magnolia Grove’s built landscape, associated artifacts, and features such as swept yards, archaeologists can determine whether environmental conditions are more influential in forming similar built landscapes of plantations or if individual autonomy, of slave and master alike, form these landscapes through the exertion of their will.

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• Society for Historical Archaeology 2019   •
• Archaeologies of Enslavement

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