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Power and Community: The Archaeology of Slavery at the Hermitage Plantation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Brian W. Thomas
Brian W. Thomas*
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Center for Archaeological Research, Southwest Missouri State University, 901 S. National Avenue, Springfield, MO 65804-0089
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Abstract

The social and material lives of African Americans on antebellum plantations in the southern United States were heavily influenced by power relations inherent to the institution of slavery. Although planters exerted immense control over slaves, plantation slavery involved constant negotiation between master and slave. This give-and-take was part of the lived experience of enslaved African Americans, and one way to approach the study of this experience is by adopting a dialectical view of power. I illustrate how such a theoretical approach can be employed by examining the archaeology of slavery at the Hermitage plantation, located near Nashville, Tennessee. By examining material culture from former slave cabins located on different parts of the plantation, I explore how various categories of material culture reflected and participated in planters’ efforts to control slaves, as well as how those efforts were contested.

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La vida social y material de los esclavos africano-americanos en las plantaciones del Ante-bellum en el Sur de los Estados Unidos fue profundamente afectada por las relaciones de poder inherentes a la institutión de la esclavitud. Aunque los hacendados ejeraían un control inmenso sobre los esclavos, la esclavitud comprendía una negociación constante entre amo y esclavo. Este dar-y-tomar era parte de la experiencia cotidiana de los esclavos africano-americanos. Una manera de acercarse al estudio de la experiencia cotidiana es adoptar una visión dialéctica del poder. El presente estudio demuestra cómo tal perspectiva teórica puede utilizarse para estudiar de la arqueología de la esclavitud en la plantación, Hermitage cerca de Nashville, Tennessee. Al analizar la cultura material que proviene de las barracas de los esclavos de esa ípoca, repartida entre varios sitios de la plantación, se puede explorar la manera en que diversas categorías de la cultura material reflejaron y participaron de los esfuerzos de los hacendados para controlar a los esclavos, así como la manera en que los esclavos respondieron a esos esfuerzos.

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American Antiquity , Volume 63 , Issue 4 , October 1998 , pp. 531 - 551
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1998

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