Preserving Heritage: The Challenge of Race and Class at the Pyrrhus Concer Homelot
Author(s): Allison J.M. McGovern
Year: 2017
Summary
This paper discusses community outreach and archaeological investigations at the Pyrrhus Concer Homelot in Southampton, New York. Pyrrhus Concer was born to an enslaved mother during the Gradual Emancipation Era in New York State, and he is locally remembered as a freed slave, a whaleman, a philanthropist, and a respected community member. Despite local awareness and memorialization of Concer’s homelot, his home became the locus of a heated battle between local preservationists, planning board members, and developers. This paper will discuss how the intersection of race and class continues to affect local concepts of heritage and the politics of preservation at sites like the Concer homelot.
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Preserving Heritage: The Challenge of Race and Class at the Pyrrhus Concer Homelot. Allison J.M. McGovern. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Fort Worth, TX. 2017 ( tDAR id: 435296)
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Keywords
General
class
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heritage
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Race
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
19th Century
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): 424