Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

Remains of the Invisible: Reconstructing Nineteenth-Century Plantation Life through the Biohistories of an Eastern North Carolina Family

  • Original Article
  • Published:
Historical Archaeology Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Planned restoration of a 19th-century burial vault in Jones County, North Carolina, associated with the Foscue family, led to its excavation in 2010. Family lore and related documents identify only three family members buried in the vault, but nine individuals are represented by the remains. Possible identities of the unnamed individuals are explored using biological data, family documents, and family lore. The invisibility of some individuals in the historical record reflects a period of shifting family structures, high female and infant mortality, and the effects of social status on documentation and remembrance.

Resumen

La restauración planificada de una bóveda funeraria del siglo XIX en el condado de Jones, Carolina del Norte, asociada con la familia Foscue, condujo a su excavación en el año 2010. La tradición familiar y los documentos relacionados identifican solo a tres miembros de la familia enterrados en la bóveda, pero nueve personas están representadas por los restos. Las posibles identidades de las personas no identificadas se exploran utilizando datos biológicos, documentos familiares y tradiciones familiares. La invisibilidad de algunos individuos en el registro histórico refleja un período de estructuras familiares cambiantes, la alta mortalidad femenina e infantil y los efectos del estatus social en la documentación y el recuerdo.

Résumé

La restauration planifiée d'un caveau funéraire du 19ème siècle dans le Comté de Jones, Caroline du Nord, associé à la famille Foscue, a conduit en 2010 aux fouilles de celui-ci. Les récits familiaux et les documents associés permettent d'identifier seulement trois membres de la famille enterrés dans le caveau, mais les restes des dépouilles indiquent la présence de neuf individus. Les identités possibles des individus non identifiés sont recherchées en s'appuyant sur des données biologiques, des documents et des récits familiaux. L'invisibilité de certains individus dans le registre historique reflète une période de structures familiales en transformation, une mortalité infantile et féminine élevée et les effets du statut social sur la documentation et les souvenirs.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Fig. 4
Fig. 5

Similar content being viewed by others

Data Availability

Images of human remains are available for research purposes and can be accessed by contacting the corresponding author.

References

  • Ancestry 2011 Nancy F Kinsey. Foscue Family Tree, Ancestry <https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/25931893/person/12007502698/facts>. Accessed 8 March 2023.

  • Ancestry 2012 Richard Graves Fonville. Catherine's Tree, Ancestry <https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/3537936/person/6080231251/facts>. Accessed 9 March 2023.

  • Barca, Kathryn 2014 Smithsonian Skeletal Biology Program: The Human Skeleton Database. Paper presented at the meeting of the MidAtlantic Bioanthropology Group, Richmond, VA.

  • Benbennick, David 2006 Map of North Carolina Highlighting Jones County. Location within the U.S. State of North Carolina, Jones County, North Carolina, Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jones_County,_North_Carolina#/media/File:Map_of_North_Carolina_highlighting_Jones_County.svg>. Accessed 9 March 2023.

  • Boutin, Alexis T. 2011 Crafting a Bioarchaeology of Personhood: Osteobiographical Narratives from Alalakh. In Breathing New Life into the Evidence of Death: Contemporary Approaches to Bioarchaeology, A. Baadsgaard, Alexis T. Boutin, and Jane E. Buikstra, editors, pp. 109–133. SAR Press, Santa Fe, NM.

  • Brickley, Megan B., Rachel Ives, and Simon Mays 2020 Bioarchaeology of Metabolic Disease, 2nd edition. Academic Press, San Diego, CA.

    Google Scholar 

  • Brooks, S. T., and J. M. Suchey 1990 Skeletal Age Determination Based on the Os Pubis: A Comparison of the Acsadi-Memskeri and Sucey-Brooks Methods. Human Evolution 5:227–238.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Broughton, Carrie L. 1947 Marriage and Death Notices in Raleigh Register and North Carolina State Gazette, 1826–1845. North Carolina State Library, Raleigh.

  • Bruwelheide, Karin S., Douglas W. Owsley, Kathryn G. Barca, Christine A. M. France, Nicole C. Little, and Elizabeth Anderson Comer 2020 Restoring Identity to People and Place: Reanalysis of Human Skeletal Remains from a Cemetery at Catoctin Furnace, Maryland. Historical Archaeology 54(1):110–137.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Buikstra, Jane E. 2017 Ethical Issues in Biohistory: No Easy Answers! In Studies in Forensic Biohistory: Anthropological Perspectives, Christopher M. Stojanowski and William N. Duncan, editors, pp. 288–314. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Buikstra, Jane E., and Douglas H. Ubelaker 1994 Standards for Data Collection from Human Skeletal Remains. Arkansas Archeological Survey Research Series No 44. Fayetteville.

  • Bushman, Richard L. 1993 The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities. Vintage, New York, NY.

  • Carden, Trisha 2001 Frederick Foy (1767–1838). The Foy's of Craven, Jones & Onslow Counties, NC, and Their Descendants <http://tntcarden.com/tree/Foy/fxf1767.htm>. Accessed 9 March 2023.

  • Censer, Jane Turner 1984 North Carolina Planters and Their Children, 1800–1860. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

    Google Scholar 

  • Choksi, Palak, Karl J. Jepsen, and Gregory A. Clines 2018 The Challenges of Diagnosing Osteoporosis and the Limitations of Currently Available Tools. Clinical Diabetes and Endocrinology 4(1):12.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Danforth, Marie Elaine, J. L. Funkhouser, and D. C. Martin 2016 The United States–Mexican War Soldiers of Greenwood Island, Mississippi: An Historical, Archaeological, and Bioarchaeological Analysis. Historical Archaeology 50(4):92–114.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Davis, John, and Rachel Davis 1807 Letter to Simon and Elizabeth Foscue, 23 June. Scans 13–15, Folder 3: 1804–1813, Foscue Family Papers 1753–1869, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill.

  • DiGangi, Elizabeth A., and Jonathan D. Bethard 2021 Uncloaking a Lost Cause: Decolonizing Ancestry Estimation in the United States. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 175(2):422–436.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ellis, Meredith A. B. 2020 Still Life: A Bioarchaeological Portrait of Perinatal Remains Buried at the Spring Street Presbyterian Church. Historical Archaeology 54(1):184–201.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Emery, Matthew V., Tracy L. Prowse, Henry P. Schwarcz, and Megan Brickley 2015 Exploring Dietary Variability in a War of 1812 Skeletal Collection from Stoney Creek, Ontario, Using Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopes. Historical Archaeology 49(4):54–70.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Find a Grave 2010 Nathan Foscue. Find a Grave <https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57141047/nathan-foscue>. Accessed 9 March 2023.

  • Find a Grave 2011a Dorcas Foscue. Find a Grave <https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67748669/dorcas-foscue>. Accessed 8 March 2023.

  • Find a Grave 2011b Julia Sanderson. Find a Grave <https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/75808548/julia-sanderson>. Accessed 9 March 2023.

  • Foscue, Henry Clay 1895 A Memoir of the Foscue Family from 1559 to 1895. Manuscript, James Edward Foscue, Sr., High Point, NC.

  • Gwynn, Zae Hargett 1998 Abstracts of Records of Jones County, North Carolina, 1779–1868, Vol. 1. Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD.

    Google Scholar 

  • Harriett, Julia Pollock 1987 The History and Genealogy of Jones County, North Carolina. J. P. Harriett and Owen G. Dunn Co., New Bern, NC.

    Google Scholar 

  • Harrod, Ryan P., Jennifer L. Thompson, and Debra L. Martin 2012 Hard Labor and Hostile Encounters: What Human Remains Reveal about Institutional Violence and Chinese Immigrants Living in Carlin, Nevada (1885–1923). Historical Archaeology 46(4):85–111.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Henriquez, A. C., and M. F. Oxenham 2019 New Distance-Based Exponential Regression Method and Equations for Estimating the Chronology of Linear Enamel Hypoplasia (LEH) Defects on the Anterior Dentition. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 168:510–520.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hood, Davyd Foard 1997 National Register of Historical Places Registration Form: Foscue and Simmons Plantations. North Carolina SP Foscue and Simmons Plantations, National Archives Catalog <https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721018>. Accessed 9 March 2023.

  • Jackson, Catherine A. 1977 An Index to Marriage Bonds Filed in the North Carolina State Archives. North Carolina Division of Archives and History, Raleigh.

  • Jantz, Richard J., and Steven D. Ousley 2005 FORDISC 3.1 Personal Computer Forensic Discriminant Functions. Forensic Anthropology Center, College of Arts & Sciences, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville.

  • Keeny Stamper, Amanda 2014 Archaeological and Historical Investigations at Foscue Plantation: Identifying the Structure in the Vault Field. Master's thesis, Department of Anthropology, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.

  • Kelley, Jennifer O., and J. Lawrence Angel 1987 Life Stresses of Slavery. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 74(2):199–211.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lasisi, Tina 2021 The Constraints of Racialization: How Classification and Valuation Hinder Scientific Research on Human Variation. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 175(2):376–386.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Little, Barbara J., Kim M. Lanphear, and Douglas W. Owsley 1992 Mortuary Display and Status in a Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Cemetery in Manassas, Virginia. American Antiquity 57(3):397–418.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Long, Madison 2019 Bioarchaeological Analysis of a Historic North Carolina Family Cemetery. Master’s thesis, Department of Anthropology, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.

  • Lovejoy, C. Owen, Richard S. Meindl, Thomas R. Pryzbeck, and Robert P. Mensforth 1985 Chronological Metamorphosis of the Auricular Surface of the Ilium: A New Method for the Determination of Adult Skeletal Age at Death. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 68(1):15–28.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Murphy, Jo Ann Ernul, and Eula Pearl Beauchamp 2006 Marriages of Craven County, 1851–1908, and Marriage Bonds, 1773–1868. Jo Ann Ernul Murphy and Eula Pearl Beauchamp, New Bern, NC.

  • North Carolina Division of Archives and History 1843 Will of Richard G. Fonville. Wills and Estate Papers (Craven County), 1663–1978, North Carolina Division of Archives and History, Raleigh.

  • North Carolina Division of Archives and History 1853 Will of Nancy M. Clemons. Microfilm, Wills and Estate Papers (Craven County), 1663–1978, North Carolina Division of Archives and History, Raleigh.

  • North Carolina Division of Archives and History 1854 Will of Daniel Sanders. Wills and Estate Papers (New Hanover County), 1665–1998, Vol. C, 1747–1858, p. 564. North Carolina Division of Archives and History, Raleigh.

  • North Carolina Superior Court (Craven County) 1840 Will of Ann Foscue. Wills, Vol. D, 1840–1866, p. 60, North Carolina Superior Court, Craven County Courthouse, New Bern.

  • North Carolina Superior Court (Jones County) 1814 Will of Simon Foscue. Will Records and Index, 1760–1964, with a Few Marriages, Vol. A–C, 1778–1918, p. 35, North Carolina Superior Court, Jones County Courthouse, Trenton.

  • Novak, Shannon A. 2017 Talking Heads and other Specters of the Mountain Meadows Massacre. In Studies in Forensic Biohistory: Anthropological Perspectives, Christopher M. Stojanowski and William N. Duncan, editors, pp. 167–190. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Novak, Shannon A., and Derinna Kopp 2003 To Feed a Tree in Zion: Osteological Analysis of the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre. Historical Archaeology 37(2):85–108.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Novak, Shannon A., and Alanna L. Warner-Smith 2020 Vital Data: Re/Introducing Historical Bioarchaeology. Historical Archaeology 54(1):1–16.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Owsley, Douglas W., Karin S. Bruwelheide, Kathryn G. Barca, Susan K. Reidy, and Raquel E. Fleskes 2018 Lives Lost: What Burial Vault Studies Reveal about Eighteenth-Century Identities. In Bioarchaeological Analyses and Bodies: New Ways of Knowing Anatomical and Archaeological Skeletal Collections, Pamela K. Stone, editor, pp. 111–145. Springer International, Cham, Switzerland.

  • Owsley, Douglas W., Karin S. Bruwelheide, Larry W. Cartmell, Laurie E. Burgess, Shelly J. Foote, Skye M. Chang, and Nick Fielder 2006 The Man in the Iron Coffin: An Interdisciplinary Effort to Name the Past. Historical Archaeology 40(3):89–108.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Owsley, Douglas W., and Richard L. Jantz 1989 A Systematic Approach to the Skeletal Biology of the Southern Plains, from Clovis to Comanchero: Archaeological Overview of the Southern Great Plains. Arkansas Archeological Survey, Fayetteville.

  • Owsley, Douglas W., Charles E. Orser, Jr., R. W. Mann, P. H. Moore-Jansen, and R. L. Montgomery 1987 Demography and Pathology of an Urban Slave Population from New Orleans. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 74:185–197.

  • Perry, Megan A. 2007 Is Bioarchaeology a Handmaiden to History? Developing a Historical Bioarchaeology. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 26(3):486–515.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Perry, Megan A., and Emily Edwards 2020 Resilience and Change: A Biocultural View of a Bedouin Population in the Emerging Modern Middle East. In The Routledge Handbook of the Bioarchaeology of Climate and Environmental Change, Gwen Robbins Schug, editor, pp. 237–254. Routledge, London, UK.

  • Powell, Emily, and Susanne Grieve 2011 East Carolina University Conservation Lab Treatment Report: Iron Rim Lock Mechanism and Detached Handle from Foscue Plantation. Manuscript, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.

  • Price, Jonathan, John Strother, and William Harrison 1808 This First Actual Survey of the State of North Carolina. W. Harrison, Philadelphia, PA. To David Stone and Peter Brown, Esq.: This First Actual Survey of the State of North Carolina Taken by the Subscribers Is Respectfully Dedicated by Their Humble Servants, Jona. Price and John Strother, North Carolina Maps, UNC University Libraries <https://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ncmaps/id/520>. Accessed 8 March 2023.

  • Quintana, Jorge R. 2019 As the Sun Sets, We Remain: A Bioarchaeological Analysis of the Gause Cemetery at Seaside. Master’s thesis, Department of Anthropology, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.

  • Raleigh Register 1825 No title. Raleigh Register, 23 August, 2.1(184):3. Raleigh, NC.

  • Rathbun, Ted A. 1987 Health and Disease at a South Carolina Plantation: 1840–1870. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 74(2):239–253.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Robb, John, Sarah A. Inskip, Craig Cressford, Jenna Dittmar, Toomas Kivisild, Piers D. Mitchell, Bram Mulder, Tamsin C. O’Connell, Mary E. Price, Alice Rose, and Chistiana Scheib 2019 Osteobiography: The History of the Body as Real Bottom-Line History. Bioarchaeology International 3(1):16–31.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Saul, Frank 1972 The Human Skeletal Remains of Altar de Sacrificios: An Osteobiographic Analysis. Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol. 63, No. 2. Cambridge, MA.

  • Saul, Frank, and Julie Mather Saul 1989 Osteobiography: A Maya Example. In Reconstruction of Life from the Skeleton, Mehmet Yasar Iscan and Kenneth A. R. Kennedy, editors, pp. 287–301. Alan R. Liss, New York, NY.

  • Scheuer, Louise, and Sue Black 2004 The Juvenile Skeleton. Elsevier Academic Press, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

  • Seeman, Melinda 2011 An Osteobiographical Analysis of the Foscue Plantation Burial Vault, Pollocksville, Jones County, North Carolina. Master’s thesis, Department of Anthropology, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.

  • Seifert, Laura 2006 The Possibilities of Foscue Plantation: A Management Plan for a Nineteenth Century Naval Stores Plantation. Master’s thesis, Department of Anthropology, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.

  • Southern Historical Collection 1782 Deed of Sale, Steven Tilghman to Simon Foscue, 13 September. Scan 24, Folder 1: 1753–1801, Foscue Family Papers 1753–1869, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill.

  • Southern Historical Collection 1803 Complaint Submitted by John Hayword for Simon Foscue, Craven County Court of Equity, 31 January. Scans 7–10, Folder 2: 1801–1803, Foscue Family Papers 1753–1869, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill.

  • Southern Historical Collection 1814 Inventory of Personal Property, Simon Foscue, Deceased, by Simon Foscue, Jr., Executor, 10 November. Scan 10, Folder 4: 1814, Foscue Family Papers 1753–1869, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill.

  • Southern Historical Collection 1829 Bill of Sale, Simon Foscue to ___ Smith, 12 December. Scan 40, Folder 11: 1828–1830, Foscue Family Papers 1753–1869, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill.

  • Southern Historical Collection 1830a Bill for Services, S. W. Hughes to Simon Foscue via John Foscue, Executor, 23 December. Scan 72, Folder 11: 1828–1830a, Foscue Family Papers 1753–1869, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill.

  • Southern Historical Collection 1830b Bill of Sale, the Estate of Simon Foscue to John Nelson, 11 December. Scan 109, Folder 12: 1831, Foscue Family Papers 1753–1869, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill.

  • Southern Historical Collection 1830c Prescription for S. Foscue from William Holland. Scan 62, Folder 11: 1838–1830c, Foscue Family Papers 1753–1869, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill.

  • Southern Historical Collection 1830d Receipt for Services, Bryan Burnet to W.C. White, 12 December. Scan 66, Folder 11: 1828–1830d, Foscue Family Papers 1753–1869, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill.

  • Southern Historical Collection 1830e Receipt for Services, William Holland to Simon Foscue via John Foscue, Executor. Scan 64, Folder 11:1828–1830e, Foscue Family Papers 1753–1869, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill.

  • Southern Historical Collection 1831 Receipt for Materials, Henry Locky to Simon Foscue via John Foscue, Executor, 10 May. Scan 72, Folder 12: 1831, Foscue Family Papers 1753–1869, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill.

  • Stodder, Ann L. W., and Ann M. Palkovich 2012 The Bioarchaeology of Individuals. University of Florida Press, Gainesville.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Stojanowski, Christopher M., and William N. Duncan (editors) 2017 Studies in Forensic Biohistory: Anthropological Perspectives. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

    Google Scholar 

  • Trinkley, M., and D. Hacker 2015 Bioanthropological Investigation of the Vaults at Orton Plantation, Brunswick County, North Carolina. Chicora Foundation, Inc., Columbia, SC.

  • U.S. Bureau of the Census 1810 Third Census of the United States, Jones County, North Carolina. U.S. Bureau of the Census, Washington, DC. Ancestry <https://www.ancestry.com>. Accessed 22 March 2023.

  • U.S. Bureau of the Census 1820 Fourth Census of the United States, Jones County, North Carolina. U.S. Bureau of the Census, Washington, DC. Ancestry <https://www.ancestry.com>. Accessed 22 March 2023.

  • U.S. Bureau of the Census 1830a Fifth Census of the United States, Dyer County, Tennessee. U.S. Bureau of the Census, Washington, DC. Ancestry <https://www.ancestry.com>. Accessed 9 March 2023.

  • U.S. Bureau of the Census 1830b Fifth Census of the United States, Jackson County, Florida. U.S. Bureau of the Census, Washington, DC. Ancestry <https://www.ancestry.com>. Accessed 9 March 2023.

  • U.S. Bureau of the Census 1840 Sixth Census of the United States, Jackson County, Florida. U.S. Bureau of the Census, Washington, DC. Ancestry <https://www.ancestry.com>. Accessed 9 March 2023.

  • U.S. Bureau of the Census 1850 Seventh Census of the United States, Craven County, North Carolina. U.S. Bureau of the Census, Washington, DC. Ancestry <https://www.ancestry.com>. Accessed 9 March 2023.

  • Wells, John B. 1971 Foscue Plantation House Nomination Form for the National Register of Historic Places. <https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721020>. Accessed 8 March 2023.

  • World Health Organization 2007 WHO Scientific Group on the Assessment of Osteoporosis at Primary Health Care Level: Summary Meeting Report Brussels, Belgium, 5–7 May 2004. World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgments:

The authors are grateful to the intellectual interest of James Foscue, who realized that archaeological and bioarchaeological data would enhance information gleaned from historical documents and records. This research was sponsored by the Department of Anthropology at East Carolina University with assistance of the National Museum of Natural History through funding received from the Rice Family Foundation, and the fieldwork eas completed with the assistance of graduate students in the M.A. program. DXA scans data were taken at the Washington (D.C.) Hospital Center. Isotope analyses were overseen by Christine France in the Smithsonian OUSS/MCI Stable Isotope Mass Spectrometry Laboratory at the Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute. Kathryn Barca of the Smithsonian Skeletal Biology Program helped edit the manuscript.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Anthropology, East Carolina University, MS 568, Greenville, NC, 27858, U.S.A.

    Megan A. Perry, Melinda Seeman Cherry & Charles R. Ewen

  2. Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 20013-7012, U.S.A.

    Douglas W. Owsley & Karin S. Bruwelheide

Authors
  1. Megan A. Perry
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Melinda Seeman Cherry
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Douglas W. Owsley
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Karin S. Bruwelheide
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. Charles R. Ewen
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Megan A. Perry.

Ethics declarations

Conflict of Interest Statement

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

Additional information

Publisher's Note

Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

Supplementary information

Rights and permissions

Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law.

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Perry, M.A., Cherry, M.S., Owsley, D.W. et al. Remains of the Invisible: Reconstructing Nineteenth-Century Plantation Life through the Biohistories of an Eastern North Carolina Family. Hist Arch 57, 1300–1318 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41636-023-00430-2

Download citation

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41636-023-00430-2

Keywords

Search

Navigation