Connecting the Little River Settlement through Space and Time: A Planned 19th-century Black Settlement in Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Bridging Connections and Communities: 19th-Century Black Settlement in North America" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

The Little River Settlement was a 19th-century planned community established to provide farmland to Black families in Windsor, Ontario. The community failed for a variety of reasons by the mid-to-late 19th-century and the residents dispersed to other local Black settlements or relocated to Haiti, and by the end of the 19th-century the area was inhabited by French settlers. Despite the distance of space and time, this settlement still maintains connections to the local community. This paper discusses how some of the recent CRM archaeological work completed on the settlement can assist in strengthening and complicating these connections through space and time

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• Society for Historical Archaeology 2020   •
• Bridging Connections and Communities: 19th-Century Black Settlement in North America

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PaperId(s): 1086