The distribution of artifacts like creamware, pearlware, buttons, and furniture tacks at this place’s Site 6 has been interpreted as meaning that some of its residents were independently earning money. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this place, where excavations have found that slave homes in its Mulberry Row section shrank over the final decades of the 18th century. This place’s owner was born at its Shadwell Farm.
ANSWER: Monticello [or Thomas Jefferson’s home; accept farm, plantation, house, or other synonyms in place of “home”]
[10e] A stove likely used by a slave named James with this last name has been uncovered at Monticello. Thomas Jefferson had several children with James’s sister Sally, who also had this last name.
ANSWER: Hemings [accept James Hemings or Sally Hemings]
[10h] Comparing the distribution of these objects to the ceramics at Site 6 suggests that its cabins were occupied at the same time. Jefferson had slave boys aged 10 to 16 produce these objects while girls spun thread.
ANSWER: nails [accept wrought nails or cut nails]
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