An Eighteenth-Century Archaeology of Socioeconomics at Historic Bath, NC
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2023-04-28
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Scattergood, Chloe Suzanne
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East Carolina University
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Studying the consumer choices of colonial North Carolinians can indicate much about their lives and status. Archaeological excavations of two eighteenth-century warehouses in Historic Bath can tell us about merchants and their clientele. The material from these warehouses suggests notable wealth disparity, not unlike today, in North Carolina’s first established town.
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archaeology , colonial , north carolina , eighteenth-century , merchant , cellar , socioeconomics , commerce , trade , consumerism , mercantilism , east coast , bath , wealth