Stories from the Kitchen: Ceramic Analysis of the Belvoir Slave Quarter
Author(s): Alexander D. Keim
Year: 2020
Summary
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology and Analysis of the Belvoir Quarter" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
The discovery and excavation of a brick and stone slave quarter provides a rare opportunity to study an artifact assemblage produced from the preparation and consumption of meals prepared by, and for, an enslaved community. This paper will present the types of vessels and decorations represented in the thousands of ceramics sherds produced over 80 years. Furthermore, this study will reveal how the ceramics evolved over time as the ownership of the plantation changed hands, and if the conscious act of “choice” can be gleaned from this collection.
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Stories from the Kitchen: Ceramic Analysis of the Belvoir Slave Quarter. Alexander D. Keim. 2020 ( tDAR id: 456814)
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Keywords
General
Ceramics
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Quarter
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Slavery
Geographic Keywords
United States of America
Temporal Keywords
1780s-1880s
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): 573