Archaeology of Captive African Life on the Brook Green Rice Plantation: what we know, and where we will go.

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "First Steps on a Long Corridor: The Gullah Geechee and the Formation of a Southern African American Landscape" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Brook Green plantation was one of the largest rice plantations in the United States prior to the Civil War, but we as yet know little about the lives of the many Captive Africans who lived and labored there. This plantation was located on property that is now Brookgreen Gardens, an outdoor sculpture garden and educational non-profit near Pawley’s Island, South Carolina, and part of the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor. The author will present results from archaeological and related research begun in 2016, along with longer-term research program objectives.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• First Steps on a Long Corridor: The Gullah Geechee and the Formation of a Southern African American Landscape   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2022

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