"We too are the village": Reparative heritage at Catoctin Furnace
Author(s): Elizabeth A. Comer
Year: 2020
Summary
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
The village of Catoctin Furnace lacks a collective memory that includes the African American workers (both enslaved and freed) who lived and worked at the village’s iron furnace from the time of the Revolution until the mid 19th century. Now, the village historical society and partners are attempting to provide an avenue of reparative heritage to social justice and vindication through the establishment of fictive and actual kinship utilizing graveyard archaeology, aDNA, forensic facial reconstructions, and a “heritage at work” personal engagement program. This paper will utilize Catoctin Furnace to evaluate the concepts of “dark heritage”, “orphan heritage”, and “shadow places” in order to analyze their applicability to this complex and contested site.
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"We too are the village": Reparative heritage at Catoctin Furnace. Elizabeth A. Comer. 2020 ( tDAR id: 457224)
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Keywords
General
dark heritage
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Orphan Heritage
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Shadow Places
Geographic Keywords
United States of America
Temporal Keywords
1776-present
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 1065