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DOCUMENT Citation Only Jason P. Shellenhamer. Lisa A. Kraus.

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. In the early nineteenth century, when African Americans were legally relegated to the extreme margins of society and the economy, Baltimore’s ship caulkers were a rare example of free blacks who dominated a skilled trade. The Ship Caulkers’ Houses, located at 612 and 614...