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Public/Private Consumption in the Performance of Respectability and Gentility at 71 Joy Street, Boston, MA. (2022)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Danielle R. Cathcart.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "African American Voices In The Mid-Atlantic: Archaeology Of Elusive Freedom, Enslavement, And Rebellion" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. 71 Joy Street was home to several free Black families in the mid-late nineteenth century and working-class white tenants through the early twentieth century. Evidence of their daily lives and identity performances was discovered in the brick-lined privy sealed after...