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DOCUMENT Citation Only Ellie M. O'Connell. Megan Crutcher.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Kru of Liberia are famous in history for their maritime activity throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These sailors were integral parts of the British and American antislavery blockade, and they sailed on vessels in every ocean across the planet, forming new communities called ‘Kru Towns’ in major port cities like Liverpool, Cape Town, Accra, and Freetown, among others....