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Carving a Kingdom from the Trunk of the Plantation Tree: Archaeology of the Hutchinson House and the Legacy of the "Black Kings" of Edisto Island (2022)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "First Steps on a Long Corridor: The Gullah Geechee and the Formation of a Southern African American Landscape" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Emancipation provided the Gullah Geechee with the opportunity to craft their own communities and economies. On Edisto Island, prominent Gullah Geechee were known as the “Black Kings” of the Island. James Hutchinson was one of the kings, and created a community...