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DOCUMENT Citation Only Karen A Hutchins.

The paper will explore how the African-American residents of a late 18th- and 19th-century community called Parting Ways in Plymouth, Massachusetts constructed a homeplace in the years following their emancipation from slavery. Beyond their importance to household productivity, daily practices—for example, cooking, eating meals, taking tea, and household chores—constituted social interactions and exchanges between individuals that fostered a sense of security and strengthened the bonds of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sean M. Jones.

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. Over three years of archaeological investigations along the Blackwater River in Dorchester County, Maryland led to the identification of the Ben Ross Homeplace site (18DO556), the home of Harriet Tubman’s father. The site’s artifact assemblage indicates a domestic occupation during the first half of the 19th century. A close...