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ABSTRACT Much of what we know about the Wye House Plantation in Talbot County, Maryland in the nineteenth century comes from the writings of Frederick Douglass, who was enslaved there. His descriptions of the landscape serve as a starting point for thinking about the past experiences of the enslaved people within this place. The terror and violence that the landscape represented in slavery conjures up not only the events of the past, but also the ways that trauma echoes throughout generations. Using Douglass’ autobiographies, archaeology, landscape studies, the works of Toni Morrison, and ideas about the hauntings of place, there are ways to think about this plantation as a landscape of irreparable loss, but also of return and resolution.
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Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage provides a focal point for peer-reviewed publications in interdisciplinary studies in archaeology, history, material culture, and heritage dynamics concerning African descendant populations and cultures across the globe. The Journal invites articles on broad topics, including the historical processes of culture, economics, gender, power, and racialization operating within and upon African descendant communities. We seek to engage scholarly, professional, and community perspectives on the social dynamics and historical legacies of African descendant cultures and communities worldwide. The Journal publishes research articles and essays that review developments in these interdisciplinary fields.
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