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"There’s nothing of their house but the ruined foundation": History and Archaeology at the Manton Farm and Primus Collins House Sites (2023)
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This presentation highlights an ongoing collaborative, community-based archaeological project at two sites in Little Compton, Rhode Island associated with eighteenth and nineteenth century Native/Afro-American families. Primus Collins, a freed black man, purchased his property in 1836 and his daughter Lucy Collins remained in the house until her death in 1893. Henry Manton’s enslaved mother sent him north in the 1860s and he and his Native American wife raised twelve children in the home Henry...