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Thesis
INDUSTRIAL SLAVERY AT ARCADIA MILL
University of West Florida
Master of Arts (MA), University of West Florida
2015
Abstract
Arcadia Mill was an antebellum industrial complex located in Santa Rosa County, Florida. As was common in West Florida, the owners utilized African American slaves as the mill's primary labor force. During the summers from 2009 to 2011, archaeologists excavated a residential area which they suspected was occupied by part of the mill's slave population. Utilizing a variety of archival sources, including slave manifests and purchase records, this thesis provides a new demographic history of the slave population and shows how the population changed shape as industrial production grew. Combined with historical records, the archaeological analysis provides a clearer understanding about who may have occupied the site and, as industrial slaves, what their material living conditions were like.
Details
- Title
- INDUSTRIAL SLAVERY AT ARCADIA MILL
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Publisher
- University of West Florida
- Format
- text
- Copyright
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
- Identifiers
- 99380090759606600
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology
- Language
- English
- Awarding Institution
- University of West Florida; Master of Arts (MA)
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), University of West Florida