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DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah P. (1,2) Sportman.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2020 the Connecticut Office of State Archaeology (OSA) launched a long-term archaeological research project to explore the lives of the free African-American Peters family in early 19th-century Hebron, Connecticut. The collaborative project involves archaeological and documentary research at the Peters family home site. Cesar...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gillian Allmond.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology on the Island of Ireland: New Perspectives" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Victorian asylum is perhaps irrevocably associated in the popular imagination with high walls, bars and physical restraint, but such markers of the asylum as carceral space began to jar uncomfortably with ideals of patient liberty as the 19th century came to a close. Purdysburn, near Belfast, was an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Russell N. Sheptak.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Gateways to Future Historical Archaeology in Mexico and Central America", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. No settlement is an island. This paper presents results from ongoing research on the historical archaeology of Central America, showing how understanding one site on Honduras's Caribbean coast, the fortress and town of Omoa, requires investigation of settlements in other areas. Our excavations of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cristina Ottey. Emma Gilheany. Megan Hicks. Eric Johnson. Christopher N. Matthews.

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. Founded by formerly enslaved Africans, the Dunkerhook community grew to be a thriving enclave of free people of color from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century. This paper will recount the historical significance of Dunkerhook as well as findings from a recent...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lori Lee. Mary Elizabeth Ibarrola.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Global Archaeologies of the Long Emancipation", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Fort Mose was the first legally sanctioned free black community in Spanish North America. In 1693 the Spanish governor of Florida guaranteed the legal freedom of self-emancipated Africans and African Americans if they converted to Catholicism, built and occupied a fort on the frontier of St. Augustine, and fought against Spanish...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannah J Francis.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. September 1, 1818: To the free negresse Maria Lucia 34 years old and 5 feet 4 inches tall leaving on the Schooner of Mr. Laurent for Pensacola. - New Orleans, Office of the Mayor. On September 1, 1818, the New Orleans government recorded Maria Lucia’s passport, the first granted to a free person of color. From 1818-1831, the city...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Khadene K Harris.

Archaeological interest in postemancipation life on plantations has received significantly less attention than those dating before emancipation. The resulting neglect misses several opportunities to unveil the complexities of postemancipation social and economic life and the impact of full freedom on the material and spatial practices of formerly enslaved individuals. I show how both planters and free people reorganized their physical surroundings and what this reorganization can reveal about...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steven J Filoromo. Elliot H Blair.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stefan F. Woehlke.

A comparative study of late antebellum slave quarters with the homes of newly freed African Americans provides insights into the dramatic impact of emancipation on the African American community in Orange County, Virginia. This paper outlines initial observations from past and present excavations at James Madison's Montpelier that focus on the Post-Madison era. It also outlines the approach for additional research, including excavations, oral histories, and the incorporation of ecological models...

DOCUMENT Citation Only - Salamatou.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. German colonization of the Bulu country in southern Cameroon began in the early 20th century. Opposition was led by Oba'a Mbeti, Aenjembe-Etanga, Abessolo Ackom, Obam Ebemnvock, Evina Minkoi, and Martin Paul Samba. The credit for the extinction of the Bulu revolts in the southern region goes to Lieutenant Von Bülow, the first...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lori Lee.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Fort Mose was the first legally sanctioned free black community in what later became the United States. Consequently, it was an experiment in freedom shaped by Spanish colonialism and African responses to it. Inhabitants of Fort Mose, including men, women, and children, lived their lives on a frontier and faced multiple challenges...