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Beliefs, protection, and personal items: The Archaeology of the Basil & Nancy Dorsey Site, a free African American farm in the Sugarland Community Tara L. Tetrault, Gwendora Reese, Suzanne Johnson, and Jeff Sypeck (2022)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tara Tetrault. Gwendora Reese. Suzanne Johnson. Jeff Sypeck.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "African American Voices In The Mid-Atlantic: Archaeology Of Elusive Freedom, Enslavement, And Rebellion" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. We began testing the 1874 Basil and Nancy Dorsey site because the Sugarland Ethnohistory Project wanted to learn more about the early settlement. When the Dorsey’s purchased their farm it is believed that they took in members of the Haskin, & Offutt families. Using...