The Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (DAACS) is
pleased to announce that artifactual, contextual, and spatial data from
the Fairfield Quarter and the Elizabeth Hemings site are now available
online at http://www.daacs.org.

The Fairfield Quarter, a mid-eighteenth century quarter site that
consists of at least two dwellings, was part of the Fairfield Plantation
located in Gloucester Country, Virginia.  It has been excavated by the
Fairfield Foundation, led by David Brown and Thane Harpole, since 2000.
Go directly to Fairfield data:
http://www.daacs.org/resources/sites/FairfieldQuarter/index.html. 

The Elizabeth Hemings site is located at Monticello, in Albemarle County
Virginia.
Elizabeth Hemings was the head of a prominent family of enslaved house
servants and artisans at the Monticello home farm and the Elizabeth
Hemings Site (44AB438) represents Elizabeth Hemings's final residence,
where she spent the last decade of her life from about 1795 until her
death in 1807.  Two archaeological field school groups, one directed by
Susan Kern in 1995 and the other by Fraser Neiman in 1996, conducted
systematic testing of the domestic site and explored other landscape
features in the vicinity of the architectural remains. Go directly to
Elizabeth Hemings data:
http://www.daacs.org/resources/sites/ElizabethHemingsSite/index.html

Data from 15 excavated slave quarters are currently available online and
include sites from Monticello, Poplar Forest, Mount Vernon, Stratford
Hall, and the Williamsburg Virginia area. In December 2006, data from
six excavated slave quarter sites from Seville and Montpelier
Plantations, both located in Jamaica, will be launched at www.daacs.org.


Downloadable data, site maps, Harris matrices, and images related to all
sites in DAACS are freely available to the public and may be used for
research and as a teaching resource.  

DAACS is a community resource, built and maintained by the Department of
Archaeology at Monticello, in collaboration with Colonial Williamsburg,
the Fairfield Foundation , the Jamaica National Hermitage Trust, the
James River Institute for Archaeology, the Maryland Archaeological
Conservation Laboratory, Mary Washington University Center for Historic
Preservation/Robert E. Lee Memorial Association, Mount Vernon, North
Carolina Office of State Archaeology, Poplar Forest, the University of
South Carolina, the University of West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, the
William and Mary Center for Archaeological Research (WMCAR), and the
Department of Anthropology, College of William and Mary.  

Please contact Jillian Galle at [log in to unmask] for more
information.


Jillian Galle
Project Manager, 
Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery
Monticello
434-984-9873
www.daacs.org