Selected Bibliography

Blanton, Dennis B.
2006    Archaeological Evidence of the Seventeenth-Century Hill Plantation at Shirley: Results of Limited Excavation in the North Yard, Shirley plantation, Charles City County, Virginia. Shirley Plantation Archaeological Report of Investigations. William and Mary Center for Archaeological Research, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA.

Jacobsen, Karisa, and Dennis B. Blanton
2006    An Archaeological Investigation of "The Grear Quarter": An Eighteenth-Century Slave Site at Shirley Plantation, Charles City County, Virginia. Shirley Plantation Archaeological Report of Investigations. William and Mary Center for Archaeological Research, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA.

Leavitt, Genevieve
1981    Slave and Tenant Farmers at Shirley Plantation: Social Relationships and Material Culture. Master's Thesis, Department of Anthropology, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA.

Ley, Jennifer Page
1995    The Slave's Story: Interpreting Nineteenth-Century Slave History at Shirley Plantation. Master's Thesis, Department of History, University of Deleware, Newark, DE.

Moore, William H., David W. Lewes, and Joe B. Jones
2006    Archaeological Survey and Evaluation of the Dredge Soil Project Area, Shirley Plantation, Charles City County, Virginia. Shirley Plantation Archaeological Report of Investigations.William and Mary Center for Archaeological Research, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA.

Orser, Charles E. Jr.
1990    Archaeological Approaches to New World Plantation Slavery. Archaeological Method and Theory. Springer, 2:111-154.

Reinhart, Theodore R. and Judith A. Habicht
1984    Shirley Plantation in the Eighteenth Century: A Historical, Architectural, and Archaeological Study. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Virginia Historical Society, 92(1):29-49.

Ridout, Orando V.
1982    Work in Progress: The Chesapeake Farm Building Survey. Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, Vernacular Architecture Forum, 1:137-149.

Teagle, Rober James
1998    Land, Labor, and Reform: Hill Cater, Slavery, and Agricultural Improvement at Shirley Plantation, 1816-1866. Master's Thesis, Department of History, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA.