Hidden Lives

The Archaeology of Slave Life at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest

By: Barbara J. Heath

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Paperback | 1 May 1999

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LIKE MONTICELLO, Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest offers a significant archaeological view of slave life at the turn of the nineteenth century in rural Virginia. In Hidden Lives, Barbara J. Heath re-creates the daily life of slaves at Jefferson's second home from 1773, the year he inherited the plantation, until 1812, when his reorganization of its landscape resulted in the destruction of a slave quarter. Drawing on census data, letters, memoranda, and other primary material, Heath describes the slave community's family ties, the agricultural cycle of work, and the sickness and health care they experienced. Her portrait is enhanced by fresh archaeological findings and a wealth of illustrations, including site and contemporary maps,../images of slaves at work and at home, artifacts, and interpretive drawings.

By looking at the social meaning of buildings, yards, and artifacts, Heath presents new interpretations of how individuals used materials to create a sense of self and community, how they acquired belongings, and how they safeguarded them. For visitors to historic sites and students and scholars of archaeology, Heath's book offers a visual and textual exploration of complex relationships within the plantation and of the resulting choices, compromises, and limitations that Jefferson's slaves negotiated in the process of making a home within the confines of institutionalized slavery.

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A fine addition to our understanding of the archaeology of slavery in the Virginia piedmont and on the plantations of Thomas Jefferson. The writing is lucid, and the treatment, while maintaining its scholarly standards, is suitable for a broad range of readers.

--Lucia C. Stanton, Monticello

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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Finding "The Old Plantation"	p. 4
The Enslaved Community at Poplar Forest	p. 9
Excavations at the Quarter Site	p. 27
The Material World of Slavery	p. 47
Conclusions	p. 65
Notes	p. 69
Bibliography	p. 73
Illustration Credits	p. 77
Index	p. 79
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