The Archaeology of Slavery at the Van Cortlandt Plantation in the Bronx,New York |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">H?Arthur?BankoffEmail author Frederick?A?Winter |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Brooklyn, New York, 11210;(2) 2828 North Van Buren Street, Arlington, Virginia, 2221 |
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Abstract: | Excavations at the Van Cortlandt Mansion, the central structure of an eighteenth-century plantation located in Van Cortlandt
Park in the Bronx, New York, highlight the difficulty of using archaeological evidence to document the story of enslavement
in early America. While the documents indicate the extent of the Van Cortlandts' involvement in the slave trade and in the
reliance on enslaved labor to build and run their enterprise, the excavations carried out over several years have not yielded
concomitant evidence. |
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Keywords: | plantations slavery documentary history New York |
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