Dear fellow HISTARCH travelers,
 
I am posting this for a young woman, a former BU undergrad, who is now at
Southern Illinois University (working for their contract/consultancy as
well as on her MA, I gather).  I provided her with a few ideas (e.g., check
the SHA biblio on the African-American experience), but I am not an
authority on the topic she finds herself investigating.  If you have
helpful suggestions, please contact her off-list, as she is not yet a
subscriber (a condition I hope to remedy!).
 
Thanks in advance!
 
Mary B.
 
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forwarded query:
 
I am currently working on a historical African-American site.  It is a
community that spans from 1830s-1925, composed of freed slaves and their
descendants.  It was established when a man from Tennessee came to Southern
Illinois with the purpose of freeing his slaves (as it was illegal in
Tennessee).  My question is do you know if
anyone is working (or has worked) on similar projects.  I know there has
been a lot of work done on plantation archaeology and slave quarters, but we
are looking for free black sites both pre- and post-civil war.  If you have
any information, I would greatly appreciate any help I can get.
 
Thanks,
Elizabeth Fuller
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Mary C. Beaudry
Editor, Northeast Historical Archaeology
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Archaeology
Boston University
Boston, MA 02215
 
tel. 617-353-3415
fax. 617-353-6800
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