Florida/Southeast (Geographic Keyword)

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Abundance/Absence: Reframing Agency in African Diaspora Archaeology (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Ibarrola.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Black Studies and Archaeology" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In her 1997 book Scenes of Subjection, writer Saidiya Hartman examined the possibilities for resistance and transformation manifest in Black performance and everyday practice both pre and post-emancipation. Her examination is couched in a deep skepticism of the usefulness and relevance of agency in the study of slave power, questioning what...


Mose In the Middle: Terrestrial and Maritime Methods Meet In St. Augustine (2022)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary E Ibarrola. Charles Meide.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Fort Mose Above and Below: Terrestrial and Underwater Excavations at the Earliest Free Afro-Diasporic Settlement in the United States" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The site of Fort Mose in St. Augustine, Florida, faces considerable environmental threat. Remains of the fort are located on a small hammock north of the colonial city. Once connected to the mainland by agricultural fields, the fort was...