Enslavement (Other Keyword)
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This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2011 Youth Diving with a Purpose (YDWP) and the NPS partnered to create a sustainable pathway for Black youth to enter into the field of maritime archaeology. In the summer of 2021 we represented YDWP as interns to continue this partnership through the ongoing search for the Guerrero. The Guerrero was a ship carrying illegally enslaved Africans to be sold in Cuba that ran aground...
10-Years of Sustainable Partnership at a Glance: Youth Diving with a Purpose and the National Park Service (2023)
This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2011 Youth Diving with a Purpose (YDWP) and the NPS partnered to create a sustainable pathway for Black youth to enter the field of maritime archaeology. In the summer of 2021, we represented YDWP as interns to continue this partnership through the ongoing search for the Guerrero. The Guerrero was a ship carrying illegally enslaved Africans to be sold in Cuba that ran aground within...
African American History at Historic Fort Snelling: Analying Artifacts from the Officers' Quarters (2025)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the mid-19th century Fort Snelling, located in what is now known as Minnesota, housed African American individuals enslaved by officers serving in the American military. Today, the site functions as a popular historic destination. Although enslaved people were crucial to the site’s history, as well as Minnesotan and...
Analysis of Lead Recovered from the IDM-013 Shipwreck in Mozambique (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Underwater Archeology of a French Slave Ship In Northern Mozambique- L'Aurore", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In early 2020 archeologists from the Slave Wrecks Project recovered several samples of lead- as both musket balls and lead caulking. This paper discusses elemental composition, isotopic ratios, and other scientific properties of the lead samples. Implications for ore sources and the ship's...
Archaeological and Archival Investigations into the Role of Anguillan Black Sailors in 17-19th Century Maritime Networks of Trade and Self-liberation. (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Port of Call: Archaeologies of Labor and Movement through Ports", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This presentation summarizes archival and archaeological research into 17-19th century unsanctioned networks of trade and self-liberation between the enslaved and free Black residents of British Anguilla and nearby French/Dutch St. Martin. Presenting preliminary findings from two seasons of archaeological...
Archaeological Excavations at Hacienda La Esperanza, Manatí, Puerto Rico (2015)
Hacienda La Esperanza, a sugar plantation on the north coast of Puerto Rico, was established in the 1830’s by Captain Fernando Fernández, a wealthy merchant and slave trader. Hacienda La Esperanza thrived until the abolition of slavery in 1873. At its height, La Esperanza was the most technologically advanced sugar factory in Puerto Rico and one of the most successful plantations at the semi-mechanized level in the Antilles. It also housed one of the largest enslaved populations in Puerto Rico...
Archaeological Excavations at Wallblake Estate, Anguilla, 2017-2019. (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeological survey and excavation began in 2017 at the 18th – 19th century Wallblake Estate on Anguilla, to examine the major activity areas of the sugar plantation. The survey recorded the standing structures, ruins, and field walls of the central complex. In addition, it examined the probable location of the enslaved...
An Archaeological Perspective On The Transition From Enslavement To Freedom In The Colony Of Bermuda (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Comparative Perspectives on European Colonization in the Americas: Papers in Honor of Réginald Auger" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The archaeological study of enslavement within the plantation economies of the West Indies has also documented the period of transition to freedom through "amelioration" and actual emancipation. Though not parts of plantations, domestic sites where enslaved people lived on...
Archaeology of the 18th-Century French Colonial Metoyer Land Grant Site, Natchitoches, Louisiana (2015)
Recent plans to develop a tract of land on Cane River prompted examination of a locality pivotal to understanding the colonial creole experience in northwest Louisiana. Survey work in 2011 and 2012 identified a large river front site, part of which was home to the plantations of Narcisse Prud’homme, John Plauché, and Pierre Metoyer—the latter an economically prominent colonial known for his relationship with the celebrated Marie-Thérèse Coincoin. Subsequent archival research, geophysical survey,...
The Archeological and Historical Evidence for the Wreck of L'Aurore- Summary and Implications (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Underwater Archeology of a French Slave Ship In Northern Mozambique- L'Aurore", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper summarizes the session, highlighting evidence, drawing implications and proposing directions for future research on the IDNM-013 shipwreck site in Mozambique.
Assessing Literacy among the Enslaved in the Antebellum South (2025)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the antebellum United States, white enslavers were initially ambivalent regarding the literacy of enslaved Africans. This ambivalence radically changed with Nat Turner’s revolt, and after 1835, when the American Anti-Slavery Society began to flood the southern states with abolitionist newspapers, handbills, and other...
The Ben Ross Homeplace at Indian Landing: "Ten Acres of Land for and During of His Life Time, Peaceable to Remain…" (2025)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Archaeology of Harriet Tubman's Birthplace", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Details gleaned from 19th century documents and archaeological excavations on the Eastern Shore of Maryland resulted in the discovery of a small, unexpectedly intact domestic site on the USFWS Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge. Research indicates this climate change endangered site is part of the homeplace of Ben Ross, the...
Bulow Plantation and Fort Bulowville: Considering the Pompeii Premise in Plantation and Conflict Archaeology (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of Enslavement" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Over the course of five summer field schools, University of Florida researchers have explored the Bulow Plantation, a large sugar plantation in East Florida, founded in 1821 and destroyed by fire in 1836 during the Second Seminole War, after it was briefly transformed into a makeshift military installation called Fort Bulowville. Two slave cabins and...
Danish Colonial Health Policy and Practice on St. Croix, US Virgin Islands (2015)
During the period between 1803 and 1848, a series of medical hospitals were constructed on St. Croix, US Virgin Islands in order to provide medical services to enslaved individuals in an effort to reduce mortality and morbidity. My research seeks to interrogate how medical initiatives and treatments were implemented, contested, or received by various actors, including Danish colonial doctors and nurses, plantation health care providers, and enslaved individuals. This research will be...
Documenting Subfloor Pits in a Slave Cabin at the Bulow Plantation (1821-1836), Flagler County, Florida (2016)
In 2014 and 2015, the University of Florida Historical Archaeological Field School conducted excavations at the Bulow Plantation, a large sugar plantation in East Florida which was founded in 1821 and destroyed in a fire in 1836, during the Second Seminole War. Our focus was a single domestic slave cabin of frame construction with a coquina stone chimney/fireplace. Excavations revealed a previously unknown architectural detail at the site in the form of a stone lined sub-floor pit feature or...
Enslavement, Maroonage, and Cultural Continuity Outside the Dockyard Walls: Middle Ground, Antigua (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Military Sites Archaeology in the Caribbean: Studies of Colonialism, Globalization, and Multicultural Communities" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. English Harbour, Antigua was home to a Georgian Naval Dockyard used to careen and repair Royal Navy vessels in the Caribbean between 1724 and 1899. The success of these operations relied on enslaved African artisans and labourers. Inside the Dockyard walls, these...
History of the Slave Wrecks Project (SWP) in Mozambique (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Underwater Archeology of a French Slave Ship In Northern Mozambique- L'Aurore", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. SWP is an international network investigating the global history/legacies of the African slave trade. It was launched in 2008 in recognition that archeology had mostly ignored thousands of wrecks of ships once engaged in the slave trade. While performing this research, SWP diversifies the field...
Invesitgating Yard Spaces and Landscape at Liberty Hall (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the 1970s, archaeologists located many of the lost buildings at the site of Liberty Hall Academy, which operated from 1782 until 1803. Their interpretation focused exclusively on the Academy Period, which left many questions remaining about a site occupied continuously from the 1740s until today in an area with indigenous...
Is Colonoware an Emblem of Enslavement? (2016)
During the antebellum period the town of Manassas, Virginia, was composed of free whites, and both free and enslaved black people. In this small community material culture played a crucial role in broadcasting status amongst its anxious constituents. They lived in an atmosphere where “whiteness” connoted cleanliness, order, freedom, and privilege. An individual’s proximity to, or distance from, whiteness yielded either powerful benefits or humiliating consequences. This was a community in which...
Kitchen Space in the Wing of Offices at Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest (2018)
The Wing of Offices at Poplar Forest was excavated over the course of several years in the late 1980s and 1990s. Originally consisting of a kitchen, smokehouse, and possible laundry and storage spaces, subsequent owners of the property tore down the Wing and replaced it with two outbuildings. The re-analysis of kitchen related materials has demonstrated patterns of refuse disposal reflecting both the use of the space during Jefferson’s lifetime and the later occupation. Relationships to other...
Labor Coercion, Land Access, and Free Markets after Emancipation in the American Southeast and Caribbean (2024)
This is an abstract from the "*SE The State of Theory in Southeastern Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The use of theory and related models that explicitly lay out the causal processes that we hypothesize operated in the past to generate patterns archaeological data is a rarity in historical archaeology. It is especially hard to find examples of research that create or use models that are then tested using archaeological data. The...
Landscapes and Lived Spaces: Preliminary Survey Of An 19th Century Enslaved and Emancipated Community At The North End Site (9MC81), Creighton Island, GA. (2022)
This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Tabby ruins along the marsh and bits of historic ceramic strewn across the surface of the North End Site (9MC81) on Creighton Island, GA, are among the only traces left of a once vibrant African American Postbellum and earlier enslaved Antebellum community. Combining the results of a systematic shovel test pit survey and excavations in 2018 and 2021, we explore the spatial organization of...
Memory and Engagement with Sacred Ground: the many publics of Mount Vernon's African-American Cemetery (2018)
In 2013, Mount Vernon's archaeology department began a long term research project to locate the graves of enslaved and emancipated individuals interred within the African-American cemetery on the home quarter of George Washington's Mount Vernon estate. Four years deep, dozens of graves have been reclaimed from new growth forest and the cemetery has taken on new life as a touchstone of memory and an interpretive vehicle for a diverse array of descendants, scholars, and visitors to the historic...
Oven Site (c.1615-c.1712): A Window into Bermuda’s First Century of Settlement and the Cultural Persistence of the Lives of Enslaved Native Americans. (2025)
Named for a primitive oven cut into bedrock, Oven Site is demarked on Richard Norwood’s 1616 and 1663 surveys of Bermuda as the home of the captain of nearby Smith’s Fort. The household was abandoned soon after 1707, when a probate inventory was taken of Captain Boaz Sharpe’s possessions. Between 2010 and 2017, excavations revealed the lost history of the century-long occupation of one of Bermuda’s earliest sites, focusing on the mansion’s detached kitchen. The two phases of kitchen occupation...
Padlocks As Multivalent Objects In The African Diaspora (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The recovery of a padlock from a domestic site seems ordinary, offering mundane interpretations to a prosaic piece of material culture. However, a lock found adjacent a slave cabin door is potentially more evocative, suggesting a negotiated social relationship, conditional privacy, and limited freedoms within enslavement. Beyond...