The Revolutionary Quash
Author(s): Marie L Meranda
Year: 2020
Summary
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
This is the story of one small man with huge responsibilities. Quash was one of Butler’s enslaved people on Little St Simons Island, Georgia during the antebellum period. Even under the thumb of overseer Roswell King, Quash managed to gain his own form of autonomy, lived in his own house that was much larger than a traditional slave dwelling, on his own island. During the spring of 2019 Little St. Simons led the first excavations on the island since Dr. Crook’s work in the 1990’s. This project was conducted in order to protect the extant chimney remains of the Old House site. Throughout this paper we will study who this man was, and how he manipulated his situation; revolting against the status quo and what more we have learned about him in the recent 2019 mitigation at his alleged house on the north end of Little St. Simons Island.
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The Revolutionary Quash. Marie L Meranda. 2020 ( tDAR id: 457142)
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Keywords
General
Island Archaeology
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Material Goods
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Slavery
Geographic Keywords
United States of America
Temporal Keywords
Antebellum
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): 881