Connected Then, Connected Now: The Archaeology of One Plantation within New Orleans’s Plantation Country

Summary

This is an abstract from the "*SE New Orleans and Its Environs: Historical Archaeology and Environmental Precarity" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Just upriver from New Orleans, Evergreen was just one of the several hundred plantations that flanked both sides of the lower Mississippi River. We have begun archaeological investigations into the lives of the enslaved at Evergreen, but it has become increasingly clear that this work extends beyond this plantation and the Antebellum. In this presentation, I lay out several theoretical considerations that may help archaeological approaches to plantation contexts become necessarily multidimensional. In order to understand life on plantations such as Evergreen, archaeologists must take a broader regional approach that incorporates other plantations, other free and enslaved Black communities, and what is happening in New Orleans. A multi-temporal approach is also critical as there is no clear-cut end to many of the phenomena occurring during enslavement as these legacies persist to the present day; thus, we as archaeologists are responsible for understanding how our actions play into these dynamics.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• *SE New Orleans and Its Environs: Historical Archaeology and Environmental Precarity   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 38823.0