African American community (Other Keyword)

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Beliefs, protection, and personal items: The Archaeology of the Basil & Nancy Dorsey Site, a free African American farm in the Sugarland Community Tara L. Tetrault, Gwendora Reese, Suzanne Johnson, and Jeff Sypeck (2022)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Tara Tetrault. Gwendora Reese. Suzanne Johnson. Jeff Sypeck.

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. We began testing the 1874 Basil and Nancy Dorsey site because the Sugarland Ethnohistory Project wanted to learn more about the early settlement. When the Dorsey’s purchased their farm it is believed that they took in members of the Haskin, & Offutt families. Using...


Cultural Resources Management Investigations for the Site of the Proposed James Senate Office Builidng Addition, Annapolis, Maryland (1999)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Nora Sheehan. Martha Williams. April Fehr.

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Whither Seneca Village? (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Diana Wall. Nan Rothschild. Cynthia R. Copeland. Herbert Seignoret.

From its inception in 1997, the Seneca Village Project has been dedicated to the study of this 19th-century African-American community located in today’s Central Park in New York City. We made this long-term commitment because of the important contribution that we think the project can make to the larger narrative of the US experience.  Seneca Village belies the conventional wisdom that there were  few Africans in the north before the great migration of the 20th century, and that, before...