Chesapeake, American South (Geographic Keyword)

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Ideologies In Tension And Moments of Change: The Slave Jail At 1315 Duke Street, Alexandria, Virginia (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin A. Skolnik. Samantha J. Lee.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology of Urban Dissonance: Violence, Friction, and Change" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. From 1828 until its liberation at the onset of the American Civil War in 1861, the slave jail complex built by Franklin & Armfield at 1315 Duke Street in Alexandria, Virginia facilitated a fundamental transformation in American slavery. It was used to industrialize the domestic slave trade; however, it also...