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Wounded Spaces, Memory Places: The case of Portland’s African American crewmembers and meaning-making in maritime archaeology (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Calvin Mires.

In 1898, the passenger steamship, Portland, sank with approximately 200 people onboard. In lieu of a physically accessible memorial on land, the narrative that emerges following a ship’s sinking becomes the memorial, with archaeology often informing the ways meaning-making is negotiated in the wake of traumatic events. As part of the symposium, “Confronting the Deep North: Addressing the Legacies of Injustice through Education of African Diaspora Sites in the Northeast of the United States,”...