Localized Adaptations in Cloth Production at Bulow Plantation, Florida

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Meaning in Material Culture" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Initial excavations at Bulow Plantation in Northeast Florida suggested that the destruction of the site by Seminole forces in 1836 had obscured much of the detail of enslaved life there.  However, excavations at a second cabin suggest that a much deeper story can be told about the lives of enslaved peoples at Bulow Plantation in the early 19th century than initially assumed. In particular, artifacts pertaining to the production of cloth and clothing recovered in the 2016 and 2017 seasons pose new questions about the use of personal time on the plantation, the production of craft goods for personal or household consumption, and the adaptation of local materials in craft production at the site. 

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2019   •
• Meaning in Material Culture

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PaperId(s): 391