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Enslaved Below the Temple of Liberty: Exposing the Hidden Landscape of the Temple and Icehouse at James Madison's Montpelier (2021)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Race, Racism, and Montpelier" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. While the presence of enslaved African Americans in plantation museums is being increasingly acknowledged and presented, interpretations of their lives are still kept largely to the areas in which they lived and labored. Slave quarters, kitchen, vegetable gardens, trash deposits, and barns are data rich and provide invaluable insights into the...