Some Walk Together Updates
[two_third]A few updates and follow up about what’s happening with the Walk Together Project: Juneteenth Lecture Last week, I had the wonderful opportunity to speak at Historic St. Mary’s City …
Making A Home: Window Glass and the Transition from Slavery to Freedom
One of the questions that I’m asking in the research about the lives of African Americans during and after slavery is how they used, modified, and manipulated different spaces on …
Looking at Space: Identifying Activity Areas with GIS
One of the major components of understanding the lives of slaves and tenant farmers at St. Mary’s Manor is understanding how they used space before and after Emancipation. This is …
Landscapes of Slavery and Freedom at the Wye House Plantation
Archaeologists and historians throughout the United States conduct research about the transition from slavery to freedom. Occasionally, we will be featuring guest posts from these researchers to demonstrate ways that these …
The Initials in the Lintel
It is not often that archaeologists are able to examine writing in the material record. Most of the time we are dealing with broken plates and bottles. Very rarely do …
The Society for Historical Archaeology Conference
In addition to sharing their research with public audiences and site visitors, researchers at Historic St. Mary’s City also make important contributions to their professional communities. In addition to contributing …
Understanding an African American Community in Gloucester County, Virginia
Archaeologists and historians throughout the United States conduct research about the transition from slavery to freedom. Occasionally, we will be featuring a guest post from these researchers to demonstrate the ways …
An African American Family Escaping North During the Civil War
This photo is part of the Library of Congress collection, and appears on their Flickr page. When used with a special viewer, the image would have appeared in 3D. The …
Maryland Slaves in the Civil War: How it Happened in St. Mary’s County
[one_third]The enlistment card of Aelxander Gough (courtesy of ancestry.com)[/one_third][two_third_last]On October 19th, 1863, Lieutenant Eben White of the Union Army headed to St. Mary’s County to recruit African American slaves to …
Looking for Comparisons: Shirley Plantation Duplex Quarters in Virginia
One of the difficulties in working with archaeological material is that our data set is inherently incomplete. While looking at what people from the past have left behind does give …