Southern U.S. (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brett J. Derbes.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Shifting Borders: Early-19th Century Archeology in the Trans-Mississippi South" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As the United States expanded westward the frontier attracted new settlers, including criminals.  Throughout the early 1800s state legislatures revised their criminal codes and shifted from corporal punishment to incarceration.  In early 1832, Louisiana Governor Andre B. Roman called for a new...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alaina K Scapicchio.

Richmond, Virginia has often been at the center of debates around the propriety of monuments to the Confederacy in public spaces. Within the last decade, commemorations of Confederate leaders have been removed from the city’s landscape while statues of Black Americans have been added. Amongst these new monuments is Kehinde Wiley’s ‘Rumors of War.’ Stylized to closely resemble Frederick Moynihan’s 1907 equestrian statue of Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart, Wiley’s subject is an unnamed Black...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn A Cross.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Between 1865-1930, dozens of Freedom Colonies were established near Dallas. Today, most have been physically erased from the city’s landscape due to redlining, gentrification, and destructive urban policies. The Tenth Street Freedman’s Town, located in Oak Cliff, about a mile south of downtown Dallas, is one of the few that persists. Founded by free African Americans in the 1880s, Tenth...