Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Spring 2024
Abstract
The Atlantic Slave Trade was responsible for forcibly importing captive Africans to North and South America as enslaved laborers for white plantation owners. This process acted as a catalyst for the creolization of enslaved African communities inside plantations across the Americas. This research thesis discusses the diachronic demographics of one such plantation community, Mulberry Hill, located in Charlotte County, Virginia. The goal is to determine which of the enslaved Africans were brought to the planation directly from Africa, and which ones were acquired from existing plantations in the Americas. The specific combination of these sources for Mulberry Hill’s enslaved community is hypothesized to be a significant influence on the nature of creolized culture of the plantation’s enslaved community.
Recommended Citation
Urban, Quincey, "Diachronic Demographic Patterns of Enslaved People at Mulberry Hill" (2024). Longwood Senior Theses. 32.
https://digitalcommons.longwood.edu/senior_theses/32
