Enslavement (Other Keyword)
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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 discusses novel techniques of geochemical analysis applied to ballast stones from the Ile de Mozambique Shipwreck (IDM-013) by Dr. Richard Palin of the Department of Geochemistry at Oxford University's Department of Earth Sciences. Techniques, and implications for the presumed...
"The Prospects Of Obtaining Wealth With Ease": Considering Native American Enslavement In The Archaeological Record At Drayton Hall. (2025)
Drayton Hall, twelve miles northwest of Charleston, SC, is best known for its 18th century surviving example of Palladian architecture, despite the history of British occupation of the property dating to 1673. As a Restoration-period colony the development of the plantation system and influx of both colonists from other European dominions and newcomers to the Americas resulted in a different trajectory of growth in the Carolina Proprietorship than previous English endeavors. Through the...
Reflecting on Point of View: Telling Stories with Archaeology (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "“Historical Archaeology with Canon on the Side, Please”: In Honor of Mary C. Beaudry (1950-2020)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Mary Beaudry pioneered the art of telling first-person narratives that enable artifacts to come alive. She taught us that although there are many mediums for archaeological writing, the primary goal of an archaeologist is to tell stories. Stories enable us to connect places and...
Reframing the Refuge: Interpreting Enslavement at Monocacy National Battlefield through Black Feminist Perspectives (2021)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Black Studies and Archaeology" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1793 the Vincendiere family fled Saint Domingue with 12 of their enslaved, and settled on a plantation in Frederick, Maryland known as “L’Hermitage". Previous archaeological interpretations at L’Hermitage focused on the Vincendieres attempts at a French-Caribbean model of enslavement in a predominantly German-Protestant community, as well as...
"Saying Their Names": Decolonizing Interpretation of the Liberty Hall Academic and Plantation Landscape (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Current Research on Virginia Plantations: Reexamining Historic Landscapes" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2021, Washington and Lee University opted to continue under the names of two slaveholders while pledging support for increased racial diversity. An earlier name of the institution was “Liberty Hall,” the ruins of which remain a cherished icon of collective identity rooted in the 18th-century...
Seeking Stories of Family and Community: Resituating Antebellum and Postbellum Narratives at Clover Bottom (2016)
During the summer of 2015, Middle Tennessee State University's Public History Program conducted an inaugural field school in historical archaeology at Clover Bottom plantation, assisting the Tennessee Historical Commission in its efforts to resolve lingering questions about the property's historic landscape and the experiences of African American families within it. This paper introduces the research design and longterm goals informing a multidisciplinary study of Clover Bottom's African...
Unearthing Their Lives: Documenting the Evolution of African American Life at Clover Bottom and Beyond (2016)
Recent excavations at Clover Bottom Plantation are contributing new information to a rich documentary record of the lives of enslaved and later freed African Americans who lived and/or worked there. Clover Bottom Plantation was owned by the Hoggatt family for the majority of its nineteenth-century history. At its peak, it was home to 60 enslaved individuals who were listed, but remained unnamed in the 1860 census. Through a comparative study of available primary sources and newspaper accounts,...
What We can Learn from Silence: Analyzing Archival Omissions within the Context of Enslaved African Americans at Fort Snelling, Minnesota (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. As many scholars have noted, archives reflect the social context within which they were assembled as well as the personal experiences of those who created the collections. The archival materials associated with Fort Snelling in Minnesota are no exception. In the context of this site, I will discuss the archived papers of Lawrence...
Wood Analysis from the IDM-013 Shipwreck (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 2020 a tam of archeologists from the Slave Wrecks Project recovered several samples of wood from the !DM-013 shipwreck in Mozambique. This paper discusses scientific results and implications for possible origin and identity of the shipwreck. Implications for future research will also be...