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Free to Choose? Emancipation, Foodways and Belonging on Witherspoon Island (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. After emancipation, formerly enslaved people in the American Southeast encountered significant challenges while transitioning to free life. Despite many obstacles, individuals and communities chose diverse paths towards establishing new lives as free men and women. Here, we examine post-emancipation foodways through historical archaeology on Witherspoon...