Date of Award

Spring 2026

Document Type

Open Access Thesis

Department

Anthropology

First Advisor

Adam King

Abstract

This research is focused on archaeological materials recovered from three late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth-century tenant house sites at Rose Hill Plantation State Historic Site. Excavations took place during the Spring of 2023 by the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology (SCIAA), under the direction of Stacey Young with the South Carolina State Parks, Recreation, and Tourism (SCPRT). Through an analysis of these artifacts, primary historic documentation, and previously recorded oral histories from descendants of Rose Hill Plantation I will discuss how the material culture and landscape associated with these tenant houses can be viewed through a lens of intersectionality to engage with questions regarding race, gender, and class. I will specifically address questions regarding how African American women contributed to creating and maintaining the spaces within and around their homes through the archaeological record. How can material culture inform an understanding of the activities and contributions Black women tenant farmers made to their families and communities? How is gender differentially represented in post-emancipation tenant farming sites?

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© 2026, Caroline Elizabeth Hall

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