Slaves as Individuals: Variability in Status and Identity Among the Field Slave Houses at Colonels Island Plantation, Georgia

In 2015, Brockington and Associates conducted data recovery at a middle-nineteenth century field slave settlement within the Colonel’s Island Plantation in Glynn County, Georgia.This site provided an opportunity to investigate a slave community in which most of the residential footprints were still intact.This paper presents a discussion of slaves as individuals by examining different artifact assemblages among the field houses in a small six-cabin slave settlement on a sea island cotton plantation in southern coastal Georgia.