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DOCUMENT Citation Only C. Broughton Anderson.

Investigation into the lifeways of freedman George White suggest a successful businessman with the means to purchase and keep approximately 300 acres, to purchase and emancipate his family, and to build a safe community for his family and other freed slaves in eastern Kentucky.  However, documentary research revealed only small fragments about the female members of his family. The women are, for the most part, invisible.  This paper uses intersectionality as a theoretical lens to explore the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sharon Burnston.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Retrospective: 50 Years Of Research And Changing Narratives At Catoctin Furnace, Maryland", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the 1979/1980 Phase III excavation of the Catoctin Furnace African American cemetery, Sharon Ann Burnston served as field supervisor under the direction of the late Ron Thomas, Principal Investigator of Mid-Atlantic Archaeological Research, Inc. Her memories of the data recovery...