"May the Dragon never be my guide!" African American Catholicism at the Northampton Slave Quarters and Archaeological Park
Author(s): Kristin M. Montaperto
Year: 2016
Summary
During excavations conducted in the 1990s by The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, a number of small religious objects (i.e. medals, rosary, cross) were uncovered at Northampton, a prominent Prince George’s County, Maryland, plantation. These artifacts were discovered within two slave quarters, a wood frame quarter dating to the late 1790s and a brick quarter dating to the second quarter of the 1800s. Both enslaved African Americans and African American tenant farmers lived in these quarters. Although research is ongoing, this presentation will begin to examine the significance of these small finds and the spiritual practices of African Americans at Northampton.
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"May the Dragon never be my guide!" African American Catholicism at the Northampton Slave Quarters and Archaeological Park. Kristin M. Montaperto. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Washington, D.C. 2016 ( tDAR id: 434264)
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Keywords
General
African Americans
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Catholicism
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religious objects
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
18th through 21st 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): 763