Archaeological data for Middleburg Plantation, located in Berkeley
County, South Carolina, are now available through The Digital
Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (DAACS). Background
information, context data, site maps, Harris matrices, photographic
images and data on over 97,000 artifacts from the slave village and
surrounding area excavations are now accessible at www.daacs.org.
Middleburg is the first South Carolina slave quarter site offered
through DAACS.

Middleburg Plantation was excavated by Dr. Leland Ferguson and students
from the University of South Carolina between 1986 and 1999.  The main
block excavation area contains the remains of one slave dwelling and
parts of a second, which date from the third-quarter 18th-century
through first-quarter 19th century.  The artifact assemblage includes
over 21,500 sherds of colonoware.  Highly detailed data, including
vessel form and paste inclusion data, are available for these sherds.

Go directly to the Middleburg web pages:
http://www.daacs.org/resources/sites/MiddleburgPlantation/index.html.
Access Middleburg data through the DAACS query module:
http://www.daacs.org/queryDatabase/.

DAACS now contains standardized, downloadable data for 33 slave quarter
sites from the Chesapeake, Carolinas, and Caribbean. They include 19
Virginia sites, two Maryland sites, one South Carolina site, nine
Jamaica sites, and two sites from Nevis. Access all background and
archaeological data for all sites in DAACS at http://www.daacs.org.

Please do not hesitate to contact DAACS with any questions.

Jillian Galle
Project Manager, 
Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery
Monticello
434-984-9873
www.daacs.org