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Black History and Archaeology Month

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A housing type commonly found in African-American communities since the late 18th century. Wilson County has a large National Register District of this house style.
Most commonly recovered in enslaved contexts, a locally made earthen pottery in European forms
This type of African shell was often worn as decoration by the enslaved in memory of their homeland
Charles Orser documented the material basis of this common agricultural role many post bellum African-Americans performed in the South Carolina piedmont
A pioneering study of plantation slavery on this Caribbean island was conducted in the 1970s by Jerome Handler and Frederick Lange
State Historic Site that features four 19th century remnant enslaved dwellings at Horton Grove
During the Civil War and reconstruction, this Craven County independent community of African-Americans, most of whom were formerly enslaved, was archaeologically documented in the 1980s and 1990s.
State Historic Site of African-American boarding school founded in early 20th century by Charlotte Hawkins Brown
The genesis of Leland Ferguson's noteworth book was his excavations at Middleburg Plantation, SC, that led to an expanded study of the archaeology of enslaved African-Americans from 1650-1800
County origin of 19th century enslaved cabin that was home to 7 people currently featured in core exhibit at the NC Museum of History
A pioneering archaeological study of 18th and 19th century enslaved African-American cabins at this plantation in Duval County, Florida, by Charles Fairbanks and four students in 1968. This excavation began an archaeological focus on New World plantations.
Sub floor pits that functioned for food storage, "hidey-holes" for personal items, and in some cases, as shrines related to African religious practices
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A large cemetery of ante bellum and post bellum graves of African-Americans was documented at this State Historic Site in the early 21st century
19th century State Historic Site known for its descendant homecomings and archaeologically based enslaved community building reconstructions
Post Bellum town formed from the formerly enslaved of (3 Down)
These handmade pipes in European forms have been found in enslaved and Native American contexts
A famous study of acculturation focusing on handmade ceramics, other material culture, and architecture at these two SC plantations was conducted in the 1970s by Soil Systems
John Otto's poineering student of 19th century material status patterns of the planters, overseers, and enslaved at this coastal Georgia plantation
The first enslaved Africans were brought to British Colonial America to this location by the Dutch in 1619
On February 1, 1960, what town saw four freshman African-American students from NC A&T stage a sit-in at a Woolworth's white-only lunch counter
Notable excavations of enslaved houses and industy buildings along this street were conducted in the 1970s and 1980s by William Kelso at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's mountaintop plantation
The autobiography of Harriet Jacobs, a 19th century enslaved woman, forms the basis of a public tour at this State Historic Site