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DOCUMENT Citation Only Melissa A Timo. Maeve Herrick. Descendants of the Enslaved Community of Clearview Plantation.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2019, an enslaved community’s cemetery came under threat in advance of a solar farm installation. What could have ended in yet another tragedy for a traditionally African American cemetery instead instigated a local movement with the help of GPR, archaeological field work, historical research, oral histories, inclusion, and...