Race and Reconciliation: Public Archaeology and History in the Pee Dee Region of South Carolina.

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond the Classroom: Campus Archaeology and Community Collaboration" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Although not directly connected to slavery, the Francis Marion University (FMU) campus is located on a former plantation where people were enslaved and their descendants lived as tenant farmers. An interdisciplinary team of community members, students, and scholars are collaborating to uncover the history of the campus, and to reconcile with the legacies of racialized slavery in the area. Our archaeological work focuses on the “Old African American” cemetery on campus. Our goals are four-fold: first, is to maintain the cemetery out of respect for the dead. Our second goal is to document the condition of the area in order to create an action plan for preservation. Third, we to educate students on the history of the campus and the methods used in archaeology. Finally, our facilitates conversations at FMU and in the Pee Dee on the history and legacies of slavery.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Beyond the Classroom: Campus Archaeology and Community Collaboration   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2022

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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology