"The Soil in Florida" – Developing Archaeological Methods to Identify Black Americans in Jim Crow-era Pensacola, Florida

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "African Diaspora in Florida" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Throughout its past, Pensacola, Florida has been a bustling urban center that has historically held a racially and socially diverse community. With this diversity in mind, Pensacola provides a unique example of race relations in a port city of the Jim Crow American south. Using collections from the University of West Florida’s Archaeology Institute, this project will develop an analytical framework to evaluate material signatures of the African American presence in Pensacola archaeology. The research will focus on the development of an analytical methodology for the identifying of African American assemblages in Pensacola, Florida during the Jim Crow era. By reviewing city and probate records to help supplement the context of individuals within archaeologically sampled premises, this project will also contribute to an understanding of the predominant socioeconomic relationships that help to define early race relations in Pensacola, Florida during the United States Second era of Political Reform.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• African Diaspora in Florida   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2020

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PaperId(s): 295