New York City, Northeast U.S. (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meredith B. Linn. Nan A. Rothschild. Diana diZerega Wall.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology of Marginalization and Resilience in the Northeast", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1825, two years before Emancipation in New York State and in a climate of intense anti-Black racism, two Black men purchased land north of the urban core of New York City. Over the next three decades, other Black men and women and European (mostly Irish) immigrants also purchased land there. Together they...