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A New Colony and an Old Spanish City: Ceramic Consumption in British St. Augustine, Florida

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After nearly two hundred years of continuous occupation, the Spanish port town of St. Augustine, Florida, came under British control in 1763. With the arrival of the new regime, noticeable changes occurred in the colony, including the mass exodus of Spanish residents and a new emphasis on plantation agriculture as in other areas of British America. Yet, Florida’s “British Period” lasted only until 1784, and this article examines the evidence for it in St. Augustine collections at the Florida Museum of Natural History. Vessel form analysis of ceramics from four different sites in the city are compared to both Spanish St. Augustine and the nearby British urban center of Charleston to understand the material signatures of these two different colonial societies. By building an analytical focus on ceramics through the lens of consumption, the meaning of the archaeological trends is considered through questions of identity and colonialism in a more marginal locale in the British Atlantic world. Given that the British St. Augustine assemblages shared similarities, and all had distinctly “British” ceramics, their use in facilitating shared dining practices that formed social identities in the newly formed colony is further examined in local documents. Examining how material culture functioned in the social performances of dining practices in British St. Augustine can distinguish how mass-produced goods were made meaningful in different colonial societies.

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The data used to support these findings are provided within the article. Further details are available in Sullivan 2022: Appendix A-D, accesible at https://ufdc.ufl.edu/ufe0058899/00001.

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I would like to thank Gifford Waters, Collections Manager at the Florida Museum of Natural History, for providing me with the space and time to work with the St. Augustine collections in 2021. Special thanks also to Martha Zierden, Curator of Historical Archaeology at the Charleston Museum for freely sharing the Society Hall assemblage used as a critical comparative dataset in the vessel analysis presented here. Thanks to James Davidson, Susan deFrance, Charles Cobb, and Susan Gillespie who have all provided feedback to the ideas found in this paper in its various iterations.

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Sullivan, M. A New Colony and an Old Spanish City: Ceramic Consumption in British St. Augustine, Florida. Int J Histor Archaeol (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-023-00715-5

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