...This chapter introduces L’Hermitage, a plantation that existed in western Maryland in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In the past, L’Hermitage was host to a French-Caribbean family, the Vincendières, and a large enslaved workforce. Today, vestiges of L’Hermitage remain...

...This chapter looks to the future of the L’Hermitage landscape. What might it become? What can it teach us? The land has a rich and complex past; its representations in the future must be equally so. The investigation of Monocacy National Battlefield’s plantation history provided an opportunity...

...This preface states the book's thesis that American Indians influenced American literature, and delineates the author's methodologies employed to support this claim. To illustrate Of Plimoth Plantation's Native influence, the author reads the history from a Native point of view...

...Animal remains from two sites provide an opportunity to examine the colonial diet in French and Spanish occupations of New Orleans between 1715 and 1800. Faunal assemblages from Madame John's Legacy (16OR51), an inn/tavern site in the city, and St. Augustine (16OR148), a plantation near the city...

... of the time, which ranged from dueling to fighting related to the Second Seminole War. It also takes into account the economic climate from cotton plantation development to bank speculation to economic depression. It details the circumstances of Mary’s birth in Jefferson County, Florida, in 1839. —Homes...

... and son-in-law, Martha and Thomas Jefferson, inherited the land and developed a tobacco plantation there. Jefferson later oversaw the construction of a personal retirement retreat. Following Jefferson's death, the property passed to the Eppes, Cobbs, Hutter, and Watts families before being acquired...

...Chapter seven discusses the Laurel Grove Plantation in Spanish East Florida, managed during Kingsley’s many absences by Abraham Hanahan, an enslaved mixed-race man, emancipated in 1811. Between 1790 and 1812, East Florida experienced a booming economy as European migrants took advantage of Spain’s...

...Chapter 1 introduces the reader to the volume’s organization, and current background literature on plantation archaeology in Caribbean historical archaeology as it pertains to the study site, Betty’s Hope plantation. One theoretical perspective in examining life at Betty’s Hope is through...

...For most of the colonial period, the Codrington family had exclusive control over the island of Barbuda. Deploying the labor of enslaved African workers, they developed the island into an important source of food and other supplies to provision their sugar plantations on nearby Antigua...

...This chapter discusses the ways mollusks were differentially integrated into plantation foodways practices at Betty’s Hope. The focus on mollusk data is significant because it is frequently overlooked in historical zooarchaeology and was the animal taxon that demonstrated the most dramatic...

... Cristóbal, the easternmost island in the archipelago. It focuses on the interior highland community of El Progreso and specifically the preserved vestiges of a 19th-century sugar plantation, the Hacienda El Progreso, which left the most intensive historic footprint of human activity in the islands. It did...

... plantation radically transformed the city and its hinterland over the course of a generation. The massive importation of slaves, the relentless felling of the primeval forest to clear the way for sugar mills (ingenios) and cafetales, the opening of the port to international...

... of indigenous people, and vice versa, including the contemporary heritage and political consequences of these terms. Using case examples from a coastal New York plantation and fur-trade sites of central Minnesota, this study addresses the following questions: How do comparative cases broaden archaeologists...

... and symbolic landscapes of the region and thus imagining an environmentally progressive future for the region. Bone Martyn Capitalism Ecocriticism environmental criticism Postsouthernism Rieger Christopher Romine Scott Coiled in the Heart Elliott Scott Plantation South Tennessee Wilson Anthony...

... influential position within the colonial population until their expulsion (1763-1768). They also participated in the plantation system, as a way to finance the establishment of their evangelization work among the Native people of South America. With their most iconic plantation, the Habitation Loyola (ca 1720...

...Chapter 3 addresses the transformation of Georgia to Mount Clare, a showpiece country plantation owned by Charles Carroll the Barrister and his wife Margaret, as a result of slave labor. Enslaved blacks were the majority population, and their knowledge and experience sustained the objects...

... on the colony. Through an examination of gravestone inscriptions and domestic architecture at sites in the South Carolina Lowcountry, this chapter investigates the role of Huguenots in the development of local culture. Charleston Huguenots Louis XIV Low Country SC Plantation s Refugees from Haitian...

...The authors in this volume use innovative techniques and perspectives to reveal stories of spaces and times where the rules of the sugar lords did not always apply. Some of these “spaces in between” hide within plantation landscapes and some are revealed by alternate views of landscapes dominated...

...As Williamsburg became a prosperous urban center, African Americans interacted in dynamic rural plantation neighborhoods that enveloped the city and dominated the landscapes and waterways of colonial and antebellum Virginia. Neighbors, free and enslaved, laid deep ancestral and communal roots...

... and plantations, amounting to more than 17,000 acres worked by between 250 and 300 slaves. The development and operation of White Oak Plantation in Nassau County is a special focus. Batten Island Baxter’s Bluff Buena Vista Plantation Deep Creek Plantation Drayton Island Duval County Goodbys Creek Kingsley...