Making a House a Home: Exploring the Material Culture of Enslaved Domestic Settings at Kingsley Plantation

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Several seasons of excavation at Kingsley Plantation, in Duval County Florida, have yielded a large, multi-component dataset that spans both domestic and industrial components of the plantation. The enslaved Africans and African Americans at Kingsley Plantation engaged with their material worlds in a variety of different ways, as demonstrated by the variability in architectural features and artifact assemblages between the four different cabins. This paper will focus on strategies that the enslaved inhabitants of the four cabins used to manipulate their houses and material possessions to better suit their needs.

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