 African-American Archaeology
General
 Abdul Alkalimat's Black Studies Portal of Links
African Atlantic Archaeology: A Programmatic Agenda (A. Ogundiran)
African Diaspora Foodways in Social and Cultural Context, JADAH (L. Marshall)
African Diaspora Heritage in the Americas (C. Fennell)
African Influence on the Art of the United States (R. F. Thompson)
Archaeological Recovery of Identity, JADAH (U. Baram)
Archaeology at Howard University (F. Bugarin and E. King)
Archaeology and Role of Foodways and Identity (Arch'y Magazine)
Archaeology Newsletter, 1994-2000 and Current (ADAN)
Archaeology, Obama, and the Long Civil Rights Movement (C. Matthews)
Archaeology of Race and African American Resistance (C. Matthews)
Archaeology of Slave Diets and the Importance of Taphonomy, JADAH (A. Heinrich)
Art, Archaeology and the Black Experience (Camden Co. Hist'l Soc'y)
Battling the "Slave Cook" Myth through Archaeology (K. Deetz)
Bridging Boundaries within the Discipline (A. Agbe-Davies)
Creating Public Memory and the Nat'l Register (E. Seibert)
Digital Media, Participatory Culture, and Difficult Heritage: Online Remediation
and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, JADAH (C. Morgan and P. Pallascio)
Don’t Call it a Comeback, We’ve Been Here for Years: Reintroducing
the African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter (K. Deetz)
Early African America (C. Fennell)
Ephemerality of African Diasporic Materiality (D. Palmer)
Excavating the South's African American Food History (A. Yentsch)
First West African Farm Exhibit in the United States (E. Gabay)
Gender and Labor in Three Communities (A. Young)
Gizzard Stones or Gaming Pieces? (C. Goode)
Global Perspective on Plantation Arch'y (C. Kraus-Friedberg and K. Fellows)
Grave Matters: Cemetery Preservation (Chicora Found.)
Historic Black Lives Matter: Archaeology as Activism in the 21st Century (K. Deetz et al.)
The Thread: Reflections on #Blacklivesmatter and 21st Century Racial Dynamics (K. Deetz)
Interpreting Slave Status from Arch'l Remains (J. Handler & F. Lange)
Introductory Statement, JADAH (C. Fennell)
Kongo and the Archaeology of Early African America (C. Fennell)
Muslim Identity in the Archaeological Record of American Enslavement (K. Allen)
Memorializing Contested Landscapes, JADAH (T. Odumosu and H. Schroeder)
Not Presentism But Honesty: U.S. Slave Trade (M. Beaudry)
"Old Plantation" Painting: Findings and Observations (J. Handler)
Public Archaeology and Power, JADAH (L. Marshall)
Race & Practice of African-American Archaeology (T. Epperson)
Race Project (American Anth'l Assoc'n)
Toys with Professions: Racialized Black Dolls, 1850-1940, JADAH (A. Martin)
Racialized Black Dolls: Compilations from Catalogs and Advertisements (A. Martin)
Reflections on Teaching the History of Colonization, Slavery, and the African Diaspora
Using Primary Sources and Historical Fiction, JADAH (J. Mehta & B. Mollmann)
Refuge and Support: An Introduction, JADAH (C. Matthews)
Representing the Diaspora in Museums (R. Wilson)
Smoking Pipes, Tobacco, and the Middle Passage (J. Handler)
Teaching the Archaeology of the African Diaspora (T. Scarlett)
Thoughts on Archaeology and Public Responsibility (K. Brown)
Thoughts on Archaeology of African Diasporas (L. McKee)
Thoughts on African American Foodways (E. Scott)
Transporting Personal Items Across the Middle Passage (J. Handler)
Traveling Theory: Mark Leone, Slavery, and Critical Imagination, JADAH (F. Richard)
Resource Guides and Bibliographies
African Traditional Religions (C. Isizoh)
Archaeology and African Diasporas in the New World (U. Illinois)
Archaeology Newsletter, 1994-2000 (partial index and links)
Articles in "Historical Archaeology" Journal
Articles in "International Journal of Historical Archaeology"
Bibliography by Arch'l Archive of Chesapeake Slavery (Jeff. Found.)
Bibliographies of Historical Archaeology (SHA)
CRM Reports Listed in NADB Database (U. Illinois)
CRM Report Lists provided by Archaeologists (U. Illinois)
Archaeology Fieldschools on African Diaspora Subjects, 2008
Archaeology Fieldschools on African Diaspora Subjects, 2009
Archaeology Fieldschools on African Diaspora Subjects, 2010
Archaeology Fieldschools on African Diaspora Subjects, 2011
Archaeology Fieldschools on African Diaspora Subjects, 2012
Archaeology Fieldschools on African Diaspora Subjects, 2023
Archaeology Fieldschools on African Diaspora Subjects, 2024
Graduate Programs in African Diaspora Archaeology
Race Project Bibliography and Resource List (AAA)
Sources on African American Sites in Post Civil War Period (U. Illinois)
Theses and Dissertations on African Diaspora Archaeology and History (2004-2022)
Theses and Dissertations on African Diaspora Archaeology and History (2023)
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Sites in Northeast Region
New Salem, Connecticut (Arch'y Magazine)
African Meeting House, Boston, Massachusetts (Boston Globe)
Isaac Royall Plantation, Massachusetts
Parting Ways, Massachusetts, 1995 (U. Virginia)
Parting Ways, Massachusetts, 1996 (U. Virginia)
Parting Ways Revisited: Archaeology at a Nineteenth-Century African-American
Community in Plymouth, Massachusetts, JADAH (K. Hutchins-Keim)
Rural Capitalism and Racialized Landscapes in
Nineteenth-century Massachusetts, JADAH (C. Douyard)
Creating Mindful Heritage Narratives: Black Women in Slavery and Freedom, JADAH (E. Sesma)
W.E.B. Du Bois Homesite, Mass.
Turtle Feasts and the Commensal Politics of Food: Teasing Out the
Flavors of African-American Foodways in New England, JADAH (D. Landon)
Marshalltown, New Jersey, 2010 Survey and Documentation (J. Sheridan)
An Archaeology of Prosperity and Its Meanings in
Antebellum Communities of Color, JADAH (R. Handsman)
Public Face and Private Life: Identity through Ceramics at the
Boston-Higginbotham House on Nantucket, JADAH (V. Cacchione)
Antebellum African-American Settlements in S. New Jersey (C. Barton)
Excavations at Timbuctoo, New Jersey (D. Brown)
Collaborative Archaeology at Timbuctoo, New Jersey, JADAH (C. Barton & P. Markert)
Free Black Families in Sussex County, New Jersey (M. Springate)
Excavating Enslavement in the Garden State: Historical Archaeology of an 18th and 19th Century
Plantation Near Trenton, New Jersey, JADAH (N. Wekselblatt & G. Leader)
Ritual Concealment at Cooper-Mann House, Sussex Co., NJ (M. Springate)
African Burial Ground, New York (N.P.S.)
Return to African Burial Ground, New York (Arch'y Magazine)
African Burial Ground: Presentation of the Body, Living and Dead (M. Shia)
Coffin Handles from the African Burial Ground (M. Springate)
Betsey Prince Archaeological Site, Long Island, NY (A. McGovern)
City Hall Excavations, New York (Arch'y Magazine)
Craft Enterprise and the Harriet Tubman Home, JADAH (A. Armstrong & D. Armstrong)
A Creole Synthesis: Archaeology of the Culturally Mixed Heritage Silas Tobias
Site in Setauket, New York, JADAH (C. Matthews)
Cultural Loss in Manhattan, New York (Arch'y Magazine)
Lott House site, New York (Brooklyn College)
Lott House site, New York (Arch'y Magazine)
Lloyd House Manor, N.Y. (N.Y. Times)
Lloyd House Manor Excavations, N.Y. (J. Coplin and C. Matthews)
Mapping Memories of Freetown: The Meanings of a Native American
House in a Black Neighborhood, JADAH (A. McGovern & A. Mebane-Cruz)
Prospects and Pitfalls: Comments on Action Research at
Sites of Mixed Heritage, JADAH (B. Phillippi & E. Sheades)
Reexamining New York City's Colonial African Past (D. Wall)
Seneca Village Archaeological Excavations, 2011 (D. Wall and N. Rothschild)
Sylvester Plantation, New York (U. Mass. Boston)
Seeing is Believing: Archival Imagery and Counter-Narratives, JADAH (S. Bradwell)
Thaddeus Stevens House, Lancaster, Pa. (Hist. Preserv. Trust)
Exhibit Review, First African Baptist Cemetery, Phila. (P. Jeppson)
Grave Symbolism in First African Baptist Cemetery (J. McCarthy)
Dexter House, Philadelphia (Phila. Inquirer)
Dexter House, Philadelphia (Arch'y Magazine)
Dexter House Site, Philadelphia (NPS)
G. Washington's House and Slave Quarters, Philadelphia (U.S. Hist. Org.)
Archaeology at the President's House, Philadelphia (P. Jeppson)
Dennis Farm Land Trust, Susquehanna Co., Pa.
African American Burial Ground, Newport, R.I.
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Sites in Mid-Atlantic
Washington: Slaveholding Capital to a Center of Abolitionism, JADAH (M. Jackson)
Adams-Kilty House, Annapolis, Maryland (Wash. Post)
Archaeology in Annapolis and Web-based Outreach
Clay Bundle Uncovered Beneath Annapolis Street (N.Y. Times)
Crystal and Conjuring, Annapolis (L. Jones)
Hoodoo Cache in Annapolis (Arch'y Magazine)
Secret Religion of Slaves in Annapolis (Arch'y Magazine)
Updates on Archaeology in Annapolis (Mark Leone, et al.)
Early Artifact of African Worship Uncovered in Annapolis (Mark Leone)
Center for Heritage Resource Studies (U. Maryland)
To be Welcome without Reservation: Seeing a Future for Archaeology
at Mount Clare (Maryland), JADAH (T. Moyer)
Agriculture and Slavery in Prince George's County, Md. (C. Sperling)
Archaeology at L'Hermitage Plantation, Monocacy, Md. (NPS)
Spatial Organization as Management Practice at L'Hermitage Plantation, JADAH (M. Bailey)
Wye House Archaeology, Maryland (M. Cochran, L. Kraus, M. Leone)
Wye House Plantation, Maryland (N.Y. Times)
Wye House: Hidden African Side to Greenhouse Building (M. Leone)
Pasts Lost: The Wye House Plantation as a Place of Haunting, JADAH (E. Pruitt)
Alexandria, Virginia (City of Alex.)
Archaeology of Enslaved Women's Resistance in the Great Dismal Swamp, JADAH (C. Goode)
Cemeteries of Albemarle and Amherst, Virginia (L. Rainville)
Cemeteries of Amherst, Virginia (L. Rainville)
Archaeology and the Appalachian Trail, Virginia (J. Barnes)
Demory Farmstead Site, Virginia (U. Virginia)
Jamestown's 17th Century Enslaved Laborers (Wash. Post)
Sam Goode Cemetery, Mecklenburg, Virginia (J. Joseph et al.)
Monticello, Virginia (Jefferson Found.)
Differential Access to Ceramics at Monticello (K. Lentz)
Home Farm Quarter Site, Monticello, Virginia (S. Bon-Harper)
Matriarch of Mulberry Row, Monticello (Archaeology Mag.)
Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (Jefferson Found.)
Gilmore Farm Site, Montpelier, Virginia (M. Reeves)
2004-2005 Research Updates, Montpelier, Va. (M. Reeves)
Early 19th Century Enslaved Landscapes, Montpelier, Va. (M. Reeves)
Contextualizing Canines, a Dog Burial, and Enslaved Life
on a Virginia Plantation, JADAH (M. Greer)
African American Culinary History and the Genesis of American Cuisine:
Foodways and Slavery at Montpelier, JADAH (B. Pavao-Zuckerman et al.)
Mount Vernon, Virginia (Mount Vernon Found.)
Overcoming the Silence: Race, Archaeology, and Memory, JADAH (R. Schumann)
North Bend Plantation, Virginia (K. Deetz)
Poplar Forest, Virginia (Jeff. Pop. Forest Corp.)
Ravenscroft Neighborhood, Williamsburg, Virginia (Y. Edwards Ingram)
Richmond’s Archaeology of the African Diaspora:
Unseen Knowledge, Untapped Potential (E. Chapman)
The Significance of Richmond's Shockoe Bottom:
Why It's the Wrong Place for a Baseball Stadium (A. Edwards and P. Wilayto)
Slavery & Consumerism, Jeff. Poplar Forest, Va. (B. Heath)
Slavery & Consumerism, Shenandoah, Va. (N. Sorrells & S. Simmons)
Stratford Hall Plantation, Virginia (R.E. Lee Mem'l Ass'n)
Stratford Hall Plantation, Virginia (D. Sanford)
Community Development and Cultural Creolization Through Food:
The Oval Site at Stratford Hall Plantation, JADAH (A. Crowder)
Quarterpath Road Site, Williamsburg, Virginia (Y. Edwards-Ingram)
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Sites in Southeast and South
An Archaeology of Convict Leasing in the American South, JADAH (C. Westmont & C. Colclasure)
Africatown, Ala., and Survivors of the Slave Ship Clotilda (R. Hoffman)
Old Washington State Park, Arkansas (J. Brandon & K. Cande)
Rocky Shoals, Arkansas (R. Coleman)
Van Winkle Mill & Cemetery, Ark. (J. Brandon & J. Hilliard)
Van Winkle Mill, Blacksmith Shop, Ark. (A. Valentino & J. Brandon)
Looking for Evidence of Angola on the Manatee River (U. Baram)
Fort Mose, Florida (Arch'y Magazine)
Archaeology at Kingsley Plantation (NPS)
Kingsley Plantation, Florida (U. Florida)
Loss of the Slave Ship Fly, Florida Keys, 1789 (G. Swanson)
New Perspectives from Old Collections, JADAH (J. Davidson & K. McIlvoy)
Structural Racism and the Destruction of Santos, Florida (B. Nelson)
Wreck of the Slave Ship Guerrerro, Florida Keys, 1827 (G. Swanson)
Rosewood (Fla.) Heritage and VR Project (E. González-Tennant)
Virtual Archaeology and Storytelling, Rosewood, Fla. (E. González-Tennant)
Assemblages of the Dead: Interpreting the Biocultural and Taphonomic Signature
of Afro-Cuban Palo Practice in Florida, JADAH (A. Winburn et al.)
African American Archaeology in Georgia (J. W. Joseph)
Bryan County Plantations, Georgia (B. Sullivan)
Excavations across Georgia (Atl. J. Const.)
Free Cabin Site, Hephzibah, Georgia (Ga. DOT)
Ned Simmons, American Slave (Cumberland, Ga.) (M. Bullard)
Sapelo Island, Georgia (R. Crook)
Sapelo Island, Georgia: Chocolate Plant'n (N. Honerkamo and R. DeVan)
Springfield, Georgia (Ga.DOT & New South Assocs.)
Springfield, Georgia (J. Joseph)
Thatched Cabin on Cumberland Island, Ga. (M. Bullard)
Engendering Labor, African Enslavement, and Human-Horse
Relations in Chickasaw Territory, JADAH (T. Weik)
Blythewood Plantation, Louisiana (La. State U.)
Marsh House Slave Quarters at Avery Island, Louisiana (D. Palmer)
Memories of Black Indian Materialities in Colonial New Orleans, JADAH (D. Gray)
St. Augustine Church, New Orleans (C. Matthews)
A Community Activist, a Cultural Anthropologist, and an Archaeologist Walk into a Cemetery:
Re-establishing Community Pride After a Jim Crow Atrocity, JADAH (E. Bailey & C. Ewen)
Celebrating Oklahoma's African and Native American Histories
Bush Hill, South Carolina (M. Groover)
Charles Pinckney Nat'l Hist. Site, Mount Pleasant, S.C. (A. Kowal)
Charleston Judicial Center, South Carolina (J. W. Joseph)
Panopticism Along the East Branch of the Cooper River, SC, JADAH (L. Randle)
Edgefield, SC Pottery Communities Archaeology (C. Fennell)
Innovation, Industry, and African-American Heritage
in Edgefield, South Carolina, JADAH (C. Fennell)
Who Were the Potters in the Old Edgefield District? JADAH (C. Steen and C. Toussaint)
Crosses, Crescents, Slashes, Stars: African-American Potters
and Edgefield District Pottery Marks, JADAH (J. W. Joseph)
A Dragon Kiln in the Americas: European-American Innovation
and African-American Industry, JADAH (G. Calfas)
Manufacturing Social Class: Ceramic Entrepreneurs and Industrial Slavery
in the Old Edgefield District, JADAH (B. Kenline-Nyman)
Jug Factories and Fictions: A Mixed Methods Analysis of African-American Stoneware
Traditions in Antebellum South Carolina, JADAH (J. Arjona)
Tides of Celadon: Glaze Color Chronology from the Edgefield
Pottery District, South Carolina, JADAH (T. Niculescu)
The Social Landscape of Potteries: Refined Earthenwares at
Pottersville, South Carolina, JADAH (Z. Cossin)
The Expanding Legacy of the Enslaved Potter-Poet David Drake
JADAH (A. F. Goldberg and D. A. Goldberg)
Fairfield Plantation Colonoware, South Carolina (D. Cathcart)
Fairfield Plantation Geographic Context, South Carolina (E. Clites)
Gullah Geechee Culture and Preservation
Archaeology of Gullah Communities (C. Steen and J. Barnes)
Archaeology and Heritage of the Gullah People, JADAH (J. Barnes & C. Steen)
Preliminary Identification of African-Style Rouletted Colonoware in the
Colonial South Carolina Lowcountry, JADAH (C. Sattes et al.)
Building on Joseph's Model of Market-Bound Colonoware (C. Espenshade)
Dating Colonoware in South Carolina (C. Espenshade)
Spalling on South Carolina Colonoware (C. Espenshade)
Marked Colonoware and Underwater Sampling (C. Espenshade)
Comments on "Marked Colonoware and Underwater Sampling" (L. Ferguson)
Early African-American Pottery in South Carolina (L. Ferguson)
From the Earth: Spirituality, Medicine Vessels, and Consecrated Bowls as Responses
to Slavery in the South Carolina Lowcountry, JADAH (L. Ferguson & K. Goldberg)
Colonoware in S.C. Rivers and Charleston's Market Economy (J. Joseph)
The "Cymbee" Water Spirits of St. John's Berkeley (N. Adams)
Carolina Clay and the Life Dave the Potter (L. Todd)
Exploring Cemeteries in Colonial Virginia and South Carolina (C. Brooks)
Mann-Simons Site, South Carolina (J. Crockett)
Oral History at Middleburg Plantation, South Carolina (K. Barile)
Freedmen in St. Helena, South Carolina (C. Baas)
Transforming Foodways: Changes in Diet, Procurement, Consumption, and Access for Laborers
on the Stono Plantation, James Island, South Carolina, JADAH (B. Joy)
Slavery, Segregation and Ferries in South Carolina (E. Salo)
Inland Rice Fields as Landscapes and Arch'l Sites (A. Agha and C. Philips)
Lowcountry Africana Studies
Where There’s a Will: Rural Enslavement and National Register
of Historic Places Diversity JADAH (R. Morgan)
Bernardo Plantation, Texas (R. Marcom)
Rubin Hancock Farmstead, Austin, Texas (U. Texas)
Osborn Farm, Bastrop, Texas (U. Texas)
Black Disability Politics in Black Military Service: A Perspective from Nineteenth-Century
Fort Davis, Texas, JADAH (L. Wilkie & K. Kinkopf)
Freedman's Cemetery, Dallas, Texas (U. Arkansas)
Freedman's Cemetery Chronology, Dallas, Texas (U. Texas)
Freedmen's Town, Houston, Texas (C. McDavid)
Olivewood Cemetery, Houston, Texas (R. Marcom)
Place and Mobility in Shaping the Freedmen's Community
of Antioch Colony, Texas, 1870-1954, JADAH (J. Scott)
Revitalizing Tradition and Instigating Change: Foodways at the Ransom and Sarah
Williams Farmstead, c. 1871–1905, JADAH (M. Franklin & N. Lee)
"To Rise from the Darkest Ignorance": Black Texans' Engagement
with the Politics of Racial Uplift, JADAH (N. Lee)
Stories of African Diaspora Relocation to the South (M. Morehouse)
Past Reality Meets Reality Television and Social Media: Southern Charm as a Tool
in Education, Outreach, and Scholarship, JADAH (H. Blouet)
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Sites in Midwest
Preserving Chicago's Great Migration Legacy through Archaeology
and Public Engagement, JADAH (J. Peterson & M. Gregory)
Equal Rights Settlement, Illinois (M. Wild)
Archaeological Griots and Miller Grove, Illinois (M. McCorvie)
Sharing Hidden Histories: The XRchaeology at Miller Grove, a Free African American
Community in Southern Illinois, JADAH (K. Sharpe et al.)
Damaging Detours: Routes, Racism and New Philadelphia (C. Fennell)
Historical Landscapes of New Philadelphia, Illinois (U. Illinois)
New Philadelphia Archaeology Project (U. Illinois)
New Philadelphia and National Historic Landmark Status (C. King)
New Philadelphia Archaeology Project Reports (U. Maryland et al.)
New Philadelphia Archaeology article (Archaeology Magazine)
New Philadelphia Founder's Legacy of Freedom (Quincy Herald-Whig)
New Windows into the Past: Glass Artifacts at New. Phila. (C. Ng)
Paradoxes in Designs for a National Historic Landmark's Presentation (C. Fennell & K. Fay)
Pulpits and Stones: African-American Terrains of Action and Memory (C. Fennell)
Rediscovering New Philadelphia (Ill. Antiquity)
Religion, Social Networks, and Temperance in New Philadelphia (A. Morris)
Public Archaeology and Critical Histories:
Collaborative Archaeology in Southern Illinois, JADAH (A. Morris)
Creating a Sense of Place with Archaeology -- New Philadelphia (P. Shackel)
Assumptions and Assemblages: Variation in Material Consumption
across the Rural-Urban Divide, JADAH (K. Fay)
Archaeological Engagement in Indianapolis (P. Mullins and K. Glidden)
Cultural Mecca in Indianapolis (NPR News)
Randolph County, Indiana (D. Rotman)
Seizing Freedom, Camp Nelson, Kentucky (W. S. McBride & K. McBride)
Monterey, Kentucky (H. McKelway)
Enslavement to Enlistment: Refiguring Opportunity for African Americans
in the Military, JADAH (K. Hayes & S. Minor)
Little Africa, Missouri (B. Rogers)
Arrow Rock, Missouri (T. Baumann)
Excavation Results, Arrow Rock, Missouri (T. Baumann)
Scott Joplin Historic Site, Missouri (T. Baumann)
Affluence and Landscapes, Clemens Farmstead, Ohio, JADAH (M. Groover & T. Wolford)
Hermitage Plantation, Tennessee (Hermitage Assoc.)
Community Outreach at Hermitage Plantation, Tenn. (W. Battle)
Sites in West
Nate Harrison in 19th-Century San Diego, JADAH (S. Mallios & J. Lennox)
Archaeology of the Allensworth Hotel, California (B. Cox)
Sacramento, California (Sonoma State U.)
West Oakland, California (Sonoma State U.)
Excavation of an Early Dugout Homestead at Nicodemus, Kansas (NPS CRM Journal, 2008)
Archaeology of Boston Saloon, Virginia City, Nevada (K. Dixon)
Virginia City, Nevada (Arch'y Magazine)
Sites in Canada
Archaeology and Atlantic Canada’s African Diaspora
Encountering the Metropole: Stuart Hall, Race, (Un)Belonging, and Identity in Canada:
Exploring the African Caribbean Immigration Experience, JADAH (A. Gooden & V. Hackett)
Attempted Erasure and Recovery of the Free Black Community
of Wilberforce, Ontario, JADAH (C. E. Orser, Jr.)
Black History Canada (Historica Found.)
Black People's History of Canada
Black Loyalist Communities in Nova Scotia (Nova Scotia Mus.)
Black Loyalist Archaeology, Birchtown (L. Niven)
Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Sites in the Caribbean, Mexico, and South America
Small Scale Pottery Manufacture in Antigua (M. Hauser and J. Handler)
Terracotta Pipes with Triangular Engravings (Argentina) (F. Zorzi and D. Shavelzon)
Built Environment at Polly Hill Plantation, Bahamas (J. Baxter & J. Burton)
Decolonizing Collaborative Archaeology in the Caribbean, JADAH (E. González-Tennant)
Diaspora, Identity, and Locale in Barbadian Ceramics, JADAH (J. Finch)
Interpreting Slave Status from Arch'y in Barbados (J. Handler and F. Lange)
Isotopic Investigations at Newton, Barbados (H. Schroeder and K. Shuler)
Isotopic Investigations at Newton, Barbados, an Update (H. Schroeder and K. Shuler)
Bioarchaeology at Newton Plantation, Barbados (K. Shuler)
Glass Artifacts, Newton Plantation Cemetery, Barbados (J. Handler)
From West Africa to Barbados: A Rare Pipe (J. Handler & N. Norman)
Two Unique Beads from Newton Plantation Cemetery, Barbados (J. Handler)
Reexamining English Clay Pipes in Captive African Burials
on the Island of Barbados, JADAH (B. Brown)
Moravian Cemeteries on Barbados:
Sites of Historical, Social, and Political Change, JADAH (H. Blouet)
Atlantic Landscapes: Connecting Place and People in the Modern World, JADAH (J. Finch)
Out of the Shadow of Balliceaux: From Garifuna Place of Memory to Garifuna Sense of Place in
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Eastern Caribbean, JADAJ (N. Finneran & C. Welch)
Subsistence as Transformative Practice: The Zooarchaeology of Slavery
in the Colonial Caribbean, JADAH (D. Wallman)
Palmares: A Maroon Settlement in 17th century Brazil (A. Carvahlo)
Pernambuco, Brazil and the Transatlantic Slave Trade (G. Acioli Lopes)
Cultural Resistance in Minas Gerais in the Late 18th Century, JADAH (K. Kananoja)
Slave Rebellion in Bahia and Cuba, 1804-1844, JADAH (M. Barcia)
Protection Against Evil Among the Valongo Slaves
in Nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro, JADAH (T. Lima et al.)
Introduction: Archaeology of African Diaspora Contexts in Brazil, JADAH (L. Symanski)
Planting Axé in the City: Urban Terreiros and the Growth of Candomblé
in Late 19th-Century Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, JADAH (S. Gordenstein)
A Meeting Place for Urban Slaves in Eighteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro, JADAH (T. Lima)
Behind Closed Doors: Space, Experience, and Materiality
in the Inner Areas of Brazilian Slave Houses, JADAH (M. Torres de Souza)
Iron Cosmology, Slavery, and Social Control: The Materiality of Rebellion in the Coffee Plantations
of the Paraíba Valley, Southeastern Brazil, JADAH (L. Symanski and F. Gomes)
Transformation and Resistance: African Diaspora Archaeology
in Brazil, JADAH (L. Ferreira & L. Symanski)
Archaeology of the African Slaves in the Amazon, JADAH (D. Costa)
From Huts to Barracóns in 19th-Century Cuba Plantations (L. Roura Alvarez)
DNA Analysis from La Isabela, Dominican Republic
Collaborative Archaeology to Revitalize an Afro-Ecuadorian Cemetery, JADAH (D. Moreno)
Historical Archaeology in the French Caribbean (K. Kelly)
Renegotiating and Theorizing Heritage in the Context of “Disaster” in the Caribbean:
The Entanglement of Haitian Disaster-Related Histories, JADAH (J. Jean & J. Michel)
Orange Vale Plantation, Jamaica (P. Saunders)
An Archaeology of Movement at Good Hope Estate, Jamaica, JADAH (H. Bassett)
Analysis of an African Burial Ground in Nineteenth-Century Jamaica, JADAH (P. Saunders)
Africanisms and Puerto Rican Architecture (NPS CRM Journal, 2003)
Remembering Queen Mary: Heritage Conservation, Black People, Denmark,
and St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, JADAH (W. White)
St. Eustatius Archaeological Research
Stone Artifacts and Glass Tools on St. Kitts, JADAH (T. Ahlman, B. Braly, G. Schroedl)
Apprentice and Wage Laborer Economies in the British Caribbean: An Examination of
Post-Emancipation Material Culture and Housing on St. Kitts,
West Indies, JADAH (T. Ahlman & A. McKeown)
Chatoyer’s Punch Ladle: A Museum Artifact that Speaks to the Hidden History of the Garifuna,
An African-Caribbean People, JADAH (C. Welch & N. Finneran)
Last Stand of the Black Caribs on St. Vincent (J. Sweeney)
The Trouvadore Project: Legacy of a Sunken Slave Ship
Comparing the Material Culture of Royal Enslaved Afro-Caribbeans and Danish Soldiers
at the Christiansted National Historic Site, JADAH (A. Odewale et al.)
Grave Site Identification and Protection, St. John, US Virgin Islands (H. Blouet)
History and Archaeology of a Caribbean Plantation, USVI (E. Yates)
Caribbean Archaeology (Fla. Museum Nat'l Hist'y)
Journal of Caribbean Archaeology
Caribbean Histories Revealed (U.K. Nat. Archives)
African Warriors, Insurgent Fighters, and the Memory
of Slavery in the Anglophone Caribbean, JADAH (W. Phulgence)
Truth and Reconciliation: Transforming Public Archaeology with
African Descendant Voices in the Dutch Caribbean, JADAH (J.Haviser)
An Archaeology of the Atlantic Slave Trade (D. Hicks)
Mexico's Cimarron Heritage and Archaeological Record (T. Weik)
Maroon Archaeology (C. White)
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African-American History and Cultures
Presentations and Institutes
African American Genealogy and History (C. Charity)
Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society
African American Studies and Research (U. Illinois)
African Americans, Many Rivers to Cross (PBS)
Africans in America (PBS)
African Canadian Online (York U.)
African Passages in South Carolina (Charleston College)
Afrolumens Project for Pennsylvania (G. F. Nagle)
Ass'n for Study of African American Life & History
Ass'n of Black Women Historians
Back of the Big House (J. M. Vlach)
"Behind the Veil:" Documenting Jim Crow South (Duke U.)
Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries (Nat. Lib. Medicine)
BlackPast.org (Q. Taylor)
Black Seminoles (J.B. Bird)
Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World (Coll. of Charleston)
Center for African American Studies (U. Texas)
Center for Black Business History (U. Texas)
Communities in the North before the Civil War (NEH)
Documenting Louisiana Sugar 1845-1917 (U. Sussex)
Dread History: Rastafari (Smithsonian)
Frau Doktor Nancy Stafford of Georgia (M. Bullard and T. Castle)
Free African Americans in the North after the Revolution (NEH)
Grass Roots: African Heritage in Art (Smithsonian)
Harriet Tubman African Diaspora Resource Center (York U.)
Historic Places Lesson Plans (NPS)
History of Historically Black Colleges and Universities
In Motion: African-American Migrations (Schomberg Center)
Journal of African American History (JSTOR)
Joyner Institute for Gullah and African Diaspora Studies
Langston Hughes' Poetry (Acad. of American Poets)
Letters to Jemima Hall, 1836-1837 (Newberry Lib.)
Mapping the African American Past in New York (Columbia U.)
Plantation Painting as Propaganda (J. M. Vlach)
Race Relations after World War I (NEH)
Shirley Plantation, Virginia (Shirley Plant.)
Two Nations (Frontline)
Virtual Library of African American History
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Heritage Sites and Sources
African American Heritage (AMH): Abolition Movement (NPS)
AMH: Buffalo Soldiers (NPS)
AMH: Civil Rights (NPS)
AMH: Economy and Industry (NPS)
AMH: Education (NPS)
AMH: Jim Crow and Reconstruction (NPS)
AMH: Parks (NPS)
AMH: Science, Technology and Invention (NPS)
AMH: Segregation and Desegregation (NPS)
AMH: "Twenty & Odd" Film: 400 Years (NPS)
AMH: War of 1812 (NPS)
AMH: Women (NPS)
AMH: World War II (NPS)
African American Military Heritage (NPS)
African Americans at Hopewell Furnace, PA (NPS)
AfroCuba Web
Behind the Big House: Interpreting Slavery in Local Communities (J. Skipper et al.)
Black Soldiers and the CCC at Shiloh National Military Park (NPS CRM Journal, 2006)
Boston's African American Nat'l Historic Sites (NPS)
Civil Rights Resources in Alabama (NPS CRM Journal, 2003)
Critical Landscape Analysis at a Western Maryland Plantation (NPS CRM Journal, 2009)
Dunkerhook, New Jersey (J. Afro-Am. Hist.)
Exploring Contributions of Buffalo Soldiers with New Technologies (NPS CRM Journal, 2005)
Freedmen's Bureau Records Project at the National Archives (NPS CRM Journal, 2007)
Heritage Resources (N.Y. Library)
Historic Places and the Diversity Deficit in Heritage Conservation (NPS CRM Journal, 2004)
Histories of Communities in United States (Cyndi's List)
Inspiring Story of Harriet Tubman (NPS)
JXN Project at Jackson Ward, Richmond, Virginia
Kingsley Plantation Community in Jacksonville, Florida (NPS CRM Journal, 2009)
Nicodemus Nat'l Historic Site, Kansas (NPS)
Places of Struggle, Community and Triumph (NPS)
Rediscovering a Las Vegas Neighborhood's African American Roots (NPS CRM Journal, 2006)
Small Towns, Black Lives, in New Jersey
Studying Civil Rights and Racial Desegregation in the Pacific Northwest (NPS CRM Journal, 2004)
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Museums
African American Museum (Philadelphia, PA)
African Burial Ground Museum & Monument (NY, NPS)
Alexandria Black History Museum (Alexandria, Virginia)
Anacostia Museum (Washington, D.C.)
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (AL)
Black History Museum (Richmond, VA)
California African American Museum (Los Angeles, CA)
Du Sable Museum of African American History (Chicago, IL)
Museum of African American History (Detroit, MI)
Museum of African Diaspora (San Francisco)
Museum of the New South (Charlotte, NC)
Nat' Buffalo Soldiers Museum (Houston, TX)
Nat'l Civil Rights Museum (Memphis, TN)
Nat'l Museum of African American History (Washington, DC)
Nat'l Museum of African Art (Smithsonian)
Nat'l Underground Railroad Freedom Center (Cincinnati, OH)
River Road Museum (Donaldsonville, LA)
Tubman African American Museum (Macon, GA)
Additional Museums List (BlackPast.org)
Arts and History of Religions
African American Art History Initiative (Getty Research Inst.)
African American Religion, Documentary History (Amherst)
African American Religious Experience (Hartford Institute)
Arts Council, African Studies Ass'n
ARTstor.org
Churches in Southern Black Communties, 1780-1925 (LOC)
Emergence of African American Churches (LOC)
Drums and Shadows (WPA, Ga. Writers Project)
Faking African Art (Arch'y Magazine)
Guide to Religious Content in "Slave Narratives" (U. North Carolina)
Misterios: Documentary as a Way of Exploring Faith (G. Savinno)
Nat'l Museum of African Art (Smithsonian)
Obeah Histories (Newcastle U.)
Oberlin's Sacred Heritage (Oberlin C.)
Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898–1971 (Academy Museum)
Robert Farris Thompson's studies
Religion, Witchcraft and Magic Links (C. Fennell)
This Far by Faith (PBS)
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Resource Guides and Bibliographies
Bibliography of African American Studies (N.Y. State Library)
Sources related to Black Seminoles (J.B. Bird)
Teaching Delany's "Blake or the Huts of America" (T. Moussa)
African Heritage in Britain
African Europeans: An Untold History (Olivette Otele)
Black British Heritage Internet Resources (R. P. Benjamin)
Black Victorians
Bristol and Transatlantic Slavery
Brycchan Carey's 18th Century Studies (Kingston U.)
Cave Carvings at Guy's Cliffe House in Warwickshire (BBC News)
Caribbean Emigrations to Britain
Identity, Belonging, and "Dead Silence": Towards a Prospectus for Change in the Representation
of Black Residents in English Historic Houses, 1714–1837, JADAH (H. McLean)
African Heritage in Europe and Asia
African Europeans: An Untold History (Olivette Otele)
Slave-Trade Memory Politics in Nantes and Bordeaux, JADAH (S. Valognes)
Remapping Black Germany (U. Mass. Amherst)
Slavery and Memory in the Netherlands: Who Needs Commemoration? JADAH (A. Cain)
Indians of African Descent: Emerging Roles and New Identities, JADAH (S. de Silva Jayasuriya)
Transplant and Ampersand Identity: The Siddis of Diu, India, JADAH (A. Minda Yimene)
The Sidi Badshah of Western India: The Politics of Naming, JADAH (A. Shodhan)
Juje Jackie Siddi: “Barefoot Entrepreneur” of Haliyal, Uttara Kannada, JADAH (B. Shroff)
The Invincible Fort of the Nawabs of Janjira, JADAH (F. Jasdanwalla)
The Role of Religious Procession among the Afro-Indians
of the African Cavalry Guards in Hyderabad, JADAH (D. Singh)
Reconfiguring Black Internationalism: English as Foreign Language
Teachers of African Descent in South Korea, JADAH (K. Flynn)
African Presence in Portugal: People and Things Within Material, Social,
and Power Relations, JADAH (T. Casimiro et al.)
African Archaeology
Adaptation and Cultural Innovation in Africa
African Archaeological Review
Introduction: African Cities and Urban Slavery in Historiographical
Perspective, JADAH (E. McDougall)
Urban Slavery in West and West Central Africa during the
Transatlantic Slave Trade, JADAH (M. Klein)
Ancient Egypt (British Museum)
Archaeological Mission in the Sahara
Archaeology in Nigeria: Curriculum Issues (Z. A. Gundu)
Archaeology in Tropical Sub-Saharan Africa (Ann. Rev. 2004)
Archaeology of Fugitive Slave Communities in Kenya (L. Wilson)
Archaeology of Imperialism in Uganda (M. Posnansky)
Reconnecting Tswana Archaeological Sites with their Descendants: The Challenge of
Developing Southern Africa’s Cultural Heritage for Everyone, JADAH (F. Morton)
Bioarchaeology in Kormantse, Ghana (W. Schaffer and E. K. Agorsah)
British Institute in Eastern Africa
Cultural Heritage Commemoration in Uganda (J. Nyiracyiza)
Defences in 19th Century Yorubaland, Nigeria (J. Odunbaku and R. Alabi)
Dynamics of Metal Working in West Africa (K. Adekola)
Eastern African Archaeology
Gambia River’s Atlantic Trade Sites (L. Gijanto)
Historic Preservation and Development in Banjul, The Gambia, JADAH (L. Gijanto)
Fally Kebbeh and Mamadi Kumba: Emancipation and Slave Ancestry in the
Twentieth-Century Urban Gambia, JADAH (A. Bellagamba)
Great Zimbabwe (NOVA)
Historical Archaeology in the East Midlands and East Africa, JADAH (M. Posnansky)
Histories and Material Manifestations of Slavery in the
Upper Gambia River Region, JADAH (M. Kroot & C. Gokee)
History, Materialization and Presentation of Slavery in Tanzania, JADAH (D. Rhodes)
Introduction: Landscapes of Slavery in Africa, JADAH (L. Marshall)
Institute of Egyptian Archaeology (U. Memphis)
Iron Smelting in Wollega, Ethiopia (T. Burka)
Kingdom of Kush (N.Y. Times)
Kongo Iron: Symbolic Power, Superior Technology (J. Ringquist)
Kormantse, Ghana: Cultural Identities (E. K. Agorsah & T. Butler)
Archaeology of Historic Kormantse and the Colonial
Trans-Atlantic Encounter, JADAH (E. Agorsah)
Landscape Transformation under Slavery, Indenture, and Imperial Projects
in Bras d’Eau National Park, Mauritius, JADAH (J. Haines)
Is COVID-19 Transforming Speech in Mauritius? JADAH (R. Boswell)
Landscapes of Slavery in Kenya, JADAH (H. Kiriama)
"Looking for Life": Traces of Slavery in the Structures and Social
Lives of Southern Swahili Towns, JADAH (F. Becker)
Localizing the Narrative: The Representation of the Slave Trade and
Enslavement Within Nigerian Museums, JADAH (F. Sayer)
Fear of the Dark: Urban Insecurity and the Legacies of Slavery
in Antananarivo, Madagascar, JADAH (M. Gardini)
Madi and the Dufile Research Project, Uganda (M. Posnansky)
Mandara Mountains Region, Cameroon and Nigeria
"But I Am Confident: God Will Not Leave Us This Way": From Slavery to Post-Slavery
in Nouakchott's bidonvilles, Mauritania, JADAH (E. McDougall)
Nyame Akuma Archaeology Bulletin
Old and New Kingdoms of Egypt (NOVA)
Settlement Archaeology in Nigeria (U. Ibadan, Nigeria)
Shit, Blood, Artifacts, and Tears: Interrogating Visitor Perceptions and
Archaeological Residues at Ghana’s Cape Coast
Castle Slave Dungeon, JADAH (W. Apoh et al.)
Sierra Leone Heritage
Slave Routes in Western Tanzania (S. Croucher and S. Wynne-Jones)
Slavery and Colonial Emancipation in Tanzania, JADAH (B. Mapunda)
Society of Africanist Archaeologists
South African Archaeology Society
Statehorn: Archaeology in the Horn of Africa
Sudan Archaeological Research Society
Survey, Ethnohistory, and Excavation in Savi and Hinterland (N. Norman)
Born into Bondage? Iklan Lives along the Rural-Urban
Continuum (Tuareg, Sahel), JADAH (C. Oxby)
TransArea Network Africa
Untold Stories of the Esie Stone Figurines (J. O. Aleru and K. Adekola)
Urban Centers in West Africa (K. Adekola)
Yoruba Kingdom Archaeology (N.Y. Times)
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African History and Cultures
Africa Confidential newsletter
African Art: Images of Power and Identity (Smithsonian)
African Berber and Germanic Cultural Fusuion (M. Robinson)
African Brazilian Easter Food Heritage in Lagos (A. Simpson)
African Brazilian Fanti/Caretta Festival (A. Simpson)
African Cultures and Nations Links (Mongabay.com)
Africa Digital Library (Michigan State U.)
African Empires, 1st - 15th Centuries (Cen. Oregon C.C.)
African History and Culture Research (H-Net)
African History Internet Sourcebook (Fordham U.)
African Lives (Wash. Post)
African Studies Association
African Studies Gateway (H-Net)
African Studies: Issues and Trends (Leiden U.)
African Studies: Thesaurus (Leiden U.)
African Timelines (Cen. Oregon C.C.)
Africana Resources Guide (LOC)
AllAfrica news summaries
Ancient City of Benin (Smithsonian)
Animated Atlas of African History, 1879-2002 (Brown U.)
Arts Council, African Studies Ass'n
Ass'n for Study of Worldwide African Diasporas
Background Notes, by Country
Baule: African Art, Western Eyes (Smithsonian)
Coffee and its Impacts in Wallaga, Ethiopia (B. Sirika Wayessa)
Congo Expedition, 1909-1915 (Smithsonian)
Crocodiles from Katsina to Madagascar (W. Wilson Fall)
Cultural Heritage and Poverty Eradication in Uganda (NPS CRM Journal, 2007)
Cultural Heritage Management in Tanzania's Protected Areas (NPS CRM Journal, 2010)
Dialectics of Liberation: The African Liberation Support Movement (Abdul Alkalimat)
Fowler Museum (UCLA)
General History of Africa (UNESCO)
Handicraft Women of West Wallaga, Ethiopia (B. Sirika)
Heritage Management and Tourism in Nigeria (NPS CRM Journal, 2005)
Herskovits Library of Africana Studies (Northwestern U.)
Historical Maps of Africa (U. Texas)
History of Liberia (PBS)
In Remembrance of Slavery: Tchamba Vodun (D. Rush)
Lusophone African Studies Organization (H-Net)
Mandinka Culture and History
Mapping Africa (BBC)
Nat'l Museum of African Art (Smithsonian)
New Oyo Empire Cultural Heritage Resources (T. Olukole)
Oral Tradition in Nigeria, Ghana, and Benin (A Simpson)
Relics of the Slave Trade in Bagadry, Nigeria (A. Simpson)
"Scattered Africa" in Asia (M. Muhammad)
Sierra Leone Culture and History
Slave Histories in Southern Morocco (M. Thomson)
Story of Africa (BBC)
Teaching the Kongo Transatlantic (J. Janzen)
True Size of Africa
Understanding Nigeria in Atlantic World Context (S. Ogundele)
Virginia Emigrants to Liberia (U. Virginia)
West African Wisdom: Adinkra Symbols and Meanings
Yoruba Affairs Discussion Group
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Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
Internet Presentations and Institutes
Amistad Research Center (Tulane U.)
Atlantic Approaches on Resistance against Slavery, JADAH (A. Araujo)
Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas (VFH)
Brown U. Committee on Slavery and Justice
Creation of the 13th Amendment (HarpWeek)
Development of the Int'l Slavery Museum (R. Benjamin)
Frederick Douglass Papers (American Memory)
Frontline: Jefferson's Blood (PBS)
Inst. for Study of Slavery
Nat'l Underground Railroad Freedom Center
New England's Hidden History of Slavery (F. Latour)
Owning Slavery: An Interview with Katrina Browne, JADAH (R. Engmann)
Presenting Race and Slavery at Historic Sites (NPS CRM Journal, 2004)
Recognizing the Labor of Enslaved Laundresses on Southern Plantations, JADAH (K. McIlvoy)
Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (PBS)
River Road Museum, Louisiana
St. Helena Island in South Atlantic Ocean (U. Bristol)
Samuel May Anti-Slavery Collection (Cornell U.)
Slave Revolt Across Borders, JADAH (J. Kerr-Ritchie)
Slave Trade & European Imperialism (Cen. Oregon C.C.)
Slavery and Abolition in the U.S. (Dickinson College)
Slavery and Slave-like Practices (U. Minn.)
Slavery and the Making of America (PBS)
Slavery Images: A Visual Record of Life in the Early African Diaspora
Slavery in the North (D. Harper)
"Slaves' Narratives" (American Memory)
Slavery, Space, and Social Control on Plantations, JADAH (L. Marshall)
Slave Voyages: Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
Toys, Socialization, and Gendered Labor on American Plantations, JADAH (C. Betti)
Understanding Slavery Initiative
Women, Slavery, and Labor in the United States, JADAH (L. Marshall)
Resource Guides and Bibliographies
Bibliography of Racism, Law, and the Social Sciences (U. Illinois)
Bibliography of Slavery and World Slaving (U. Virginia)
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Created and maintained by
Christopher C. Fennell
Dep't of Anthropology
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign
Last updated:
May 27, 2024
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