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The Archaeology of Canaan Cemetery and Post-Emancipation Burial Traditions in the Brazos Valley (2025)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Following emancipation, many formerly enslaved Texas formed close-knit communities known as freedom colonies, often centered around their church, cemetery, and school. Canaan Cemetery and Canaan Baptist Church, situated on six acres of Brazos River bottomland, was one such community until the church was destroyed by a tornado in...