Oral History and the Archaeology of a Black Texas Farmstead, c. 1871-1905
Author(s): Maria Franklin
Year: 2013
Summary
Starting in 2009, the Texas Department of Transportation funded research, community outreach, and public education that focused on the history and archaeology of formerly enslaved African Americans and their descendants. Excavation of the Ransom and Sarah Williams farmstead (41TV1051) by Prewitt and Associates (Austin, TX) yielded 26,000 artifacts that represent rural life in central Texas for freedmen and their children. The equally significant oral history component of the project has allowed us to co-produce 25 narratives with 27 individuals, most of whom are descendants of freedmen from the region. This paper will present the working results of using oral histories to interpret the Williams farmstead site. The topics that will be explored include race, gender, and household economy.
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Oral History and the Archaeology of a Black Texas Farmstead, c. 1871-1905. Maria Franklin. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Leicester, England, U.K. 2013 ( tDAR id: 428625)
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Keywords
General
African American
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Oral History
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rural household economy
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
19th and 20th centuries
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 659