Archaeology and the Challenges of Capitalist Farm Tenancy in America

Abstract

Historical archaeologists today give the study of plantations a prominent place in their field. Within recent years, plantation archaeology has had a growing presence at several well-established archaeological conferences, and archaeologists are beginning to write more about the subject for a wider audience (see, for example, Ferguson 1992). Archaeologists have shed much-needed light on plantation life, with a great deal of focus on the slave quarters (for overviews, see Orser 1990,1994a; Singleton 1991).KeywordsHistorical ArchaeologyFarm TenancyTenure ClassSouthern PlanterWhite OwnerThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.