Holly Bend Plantation 2022: Search for the Kitchen Hearth, Ceif Cabin Site, and Dependencies

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Past documents describing the principal family residing at Holly Bend, the architecture, commerce, and social networks don’t mention an African-American component. That is until 2015 when identified colonowares were linked with African-American makers at other North Carolina plantations. Additionally, in 2017 ceramic tobacco pipe fragments were examined and associated with the separate kitchen where African-Americans were preparing meals for Robert Davidson’s family. Photographs from the early 1970s have been examined for specific locations of the kitchen and possible tenant/slave cabin. Reanalysis of brick fragments from earlier excavations are examined to more precisely locate the kitchen hearth and cabin site hearth, and correlate with known African-American artifact types.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 40051.0