W&M ScholarWorks Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects Theses, Dissertations, & Master Projects 1981 Slaves and tenant farmers at Shirley Plantation: Social relationships and material culture Genevieve Leavitt College of William & Mary - Arts & Sciences Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd Part of the African American Studies Commons, African History Commons, and the Social and Cultural Anthropology Commons Recommended Citation Leavitt, Genevieve, "Slaves and tenant farmers at Shirley Plantation: Social relationships and material culture" (1981). Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects. Paper 1539625116. https://dx.doi.org/doi:10.21220/s2-js7p-av88 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses, Dissertations, & Master Projects at W&M ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects by an authorized administrator of W&M ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. SLAVES AND TENANT FARMERS AT SHIRLEY PLANTATION »» SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS AND MATERIAL CULTURE A Thesis Presented to The Faculty of the Department of Anthropology The College of William and Mary in Virginia In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Genevieve Leavitt 1981 APPROVAL SHEET This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Genevieve Leavitt Author Approved, May 1981 dltlAM AM Norman F. Barka Edwin S. Dethlefsen Theodore R. Reinhart TABLE OF CONTENTS Page ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ........... iv LIST OF T A B L E S .............. .................. .. vi LIST OF FIGURES . ............................. vii ABSTRACT ........................................ ix INTRODUCTION . ^ . 2 CHAPTER 1 Approaches to Afro-American Archaeology . 5 CHAPTER 2 Historical Documentation .