The aim of this dissertation is to chronicle the everyday lives of enslaved people living on lands owned by the Butler family of Coastal Georgia in an effort to highlight the ways culture played an imperative role in their ability to survive enslavement. In studying this singular group of enslaved people, this dissertation takes a case-study approach to researching the history of slavery and therefore relies on multi-disciplinary scholarship including archaeological, anthropological, and others to detail the everyday experiences of the Butler enslaved people. This dissertation will complicate traditional uses of archival materials by utilizing white-authored sources out of necessity but also juxtaposing them alongside other primary source records and secondary information to underline the enslaved experience. Using this triangular approach to the traditional archives, this dissertation will uncover hidden truths about the labor dynamics, cultural contributions, and social networks of individual enslaved people that would otherwise be lost. While there are things that are unknown, and will probably always be unknown due to the nature of the archives, this dissertation adapts Saidiya Hartman’s methodology of “critical fabulation” to make educated and well-researched assumptions about the enslaved experiences at a granular level to better detail their lives on the Butler lands. This dissertation utilizes the experiences of two enslaved individuals, Old House Molly and Aleck, to guide the research and add a layered perspective to the study that grounds the historical findings in the experiences of individual people to better highlight their experience as laborers and human beings. This dissertation is therefore a creative and methodological shift in the discourse surrounding the history of slavery that can aid in the uncovering of the enslaved experience.