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DOCUMENT Full-Text Brockington and Associates, Inc.. Tidewater Atlantic Research, Inc.. Eric C. Poplin. Gordon Watts. Edward Salo. Kristrina A. Shuler. Dave Baluha. Emily Jateff. Nicole Isenbarger. Charles F. Philips.

Archival research focused on the role of ferries in the development of the colony and state of South Carolina, and the particular role of the Combahee Ferry in the region. This included the development of infrastructure within the region and state, military operations during the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, and the development of rice plantations along this portion of the Combahee River. Particular attention was given to the June 1-2, 1863, Combahee River Raid, conducted by the 2nd South...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher N. Matthews. Noelle L. Williams. James Amemasor. Michael J Gall.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology of Marginalization and Resilience in the Northeast", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2023, the city of Newark, NJ unveiled, Shadow of a Face, a new monument dedicated to Harriet Tubman and the activists of the underground railroad. The monumengt was placed in the space previously occupied by a monument to Christopher Columbus. Unlike this and other mmonuments in the city the Tubman memorial...