Date of Award
1-1-2013
Document Type
Open Access Thesis
Department
Anthropology
First Advisor
Charles Cobb
Abstract
The early 18th century Public Monopoly employed a unique form of labor organization to facilitate an administered deerskin trade. This study examines ethnohistoric and archaeological data as a means to evaluate subaltern laborers' participation in a commercializing colonial economy. It utilizes a practice based political-economic framework to situate their activities within the deerskin commodity chain. Activities identified through ethnohistoric research are evaluated through material and spatial analysis of the Fort Congaree, 38LX30/319, site. This trading factory and garrison played a central part in the articulation of the government deerskin trade. Material correlates of hide production, procurement, and transportation activities contextualize Fort Congaree activities and indicate the outpost was principally oriented towards Public Monopoly transportation activities.
Rights
© 2013, James Andrew Stewart
Recommended Citation
Stewart, J. A.(2013). Congeries In the Backcountry. (Master's thesis). Retrieved from https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/2454