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This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2021, AECOM conducted excavations near the historic Annapolis waterfront at a site occupied since the late 1700s. The shallow water table at the site resulted in a high level of preservation of organic materials, including ethnobotanical and faunal remains. As with any domestic occupation, there are important questions that can be posed, but not always answered, about what the...
Neglected History: The Filipino Community of Early 20th Century Annapolis (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. Until recently, the Filipino population has been an often under-researched and under-represented group in the historic context of the city of Annapolis, despite a well-documented presence in the city in the early twentieth century. After the Spanish-American War, many Filipinos came to Annapolis and joined the U.S. Navy. Filipino...
Using Archaeology to Understand Strategies of Racial Uplift, Past, Present, and Future: A Case Study from Annapolis, Maryland (2017)
Following the end of Reconstruction, the leaders of the African American community strove to combat negative stereotypes presented by the White majority using various strategies of racial uplift designed to develop a positive Black identity. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, these strategies could be classified as strategies of inclusion, advocated by scholars such as Booker T. Washington and Nannie Helen Burroughs, and strategies of autonomy, described by W.E.B. Du Bois and Anna Julia...