A Comparative Analysis of Ceramic Assemblages from Slave Plantation Sites in the Valley and Piedmont of Virginia

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The excavation and analysis of slave plantation sites from the Valley of Virginia, and especially their comparison to the well-documented sites of eastern Virginia, is becoming an important new source of information regarding variability in the conditions of enslavement across the Atlantic World. This poster compares ceramic assemblages from slave plantation sites near Lexington, Virginia with similar ones in the Piedmont by building on recent quantitative analysis of free and enslaved sites at Monticello (Gaylord and Bell, forthcoming). Ceramic cost and decorative diversity will be analyzed in relation to other variables such as distance to market, plantation size/population, and distance between slave plantations. Data collected by Washington and Lee Archaeology from early 19th-century sites during the 1970s through the 1990s will be compared with those curated by the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (DAACS).

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• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 25783