The Angela Site: Exploring Race, Diversity, and Community in EarlyJamestown

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Northeast Region National Park Service Archeological Landscapes and the Stories They Tell" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

The Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation in cooperation with the National

Park Service, Colonial National Historical Park is investigating the life of

one of the first African women forcibly brought to English North America in

1619. The current archaeology project builds on nearly a century of excavations

at Historic Jamestown adding to the complex narrative of colonial entanglements

in early Virginia. Project archaeologists are also reexamining the legacy of

the first archaeologists to work at the site, who were a segregated group of

African American Civilian Conservation Corps workers. Moreover, archaeologists

are exploring new methods of connecting with the community by partnering with a

local elementary school to involve descendants in the analysis and

interpretation of their ancestors’ lives. This paper explores how

archaeologists are shedding new light on the narrative of Virginia’s First

Africans and navigating the complications of America’s collective memory of the

colonial past.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2020   •
• Northeast Region National Park Service Archeological Landscapes and the Stories They Tell

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