Seeking Status: Low Socioeconomic Status Pattering at Mont Repose Plantation, Jasper County, South Carolina

<p>Throughout the last 12 years, research and excavations have been ongoing at Mont Repose Plantation in Coosawhatchie, South Carolina. Previous research hasfocused on two areas of the plantation, while other areas have been excavated, yet left unstudied. One of the areas needing more study is the N870 block, first opened during the 2000 field season, and hypothesized to include a slave cabin. In order to investigate this claim the present researcher directed an extension of the N870 block during the 2011 field season to assess the area and determine if it was, in fact, a slave cabin. By conducting a comparative analysis using data from Cannon’s Point Plantation, seeking ethnic markers in the assemblage, and studying census data from Mont Repose, it was determined that it is very probable that this was once a slave cabin.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts in Social Sciences (M.A.)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis (open access)

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Year dc:date.available

2012

Author dc:creator

• Welch, Marsha Katherine

Contributors dc:contributor

• Peggy Hargis
• Robert Shanafelt

• ETD
• Rice plantation
• Lowcountry
• Socioeconomic status
• Artifact patterning
• Gillison
• Slavery
• Beaufort
• Jasper County
• South Carolina
• Anthropology

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/815

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu:etd-1819