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Belvoir: An Archaeology of Maryland Slavery

by Julie M. Schablitsky , Edward González-Tennant , Ben Ford
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780817362225
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: University Alabama Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University Alabama Press
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  • Pages: 152
  • Original Price: USD 34.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 227 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): African American & Black

Unearthed truths, buried lives: Belvoir reveals the pain, resilience, and reckoning found beneath the soil of a Maryland plantation.

Near Annapolis, Maryland, a former tobacco plantation dating to the 1730s holds centuries of untold history. In Belvoir: An Archaeology of Maryland Slavery, Julie M. Schablitsky leads readers on an archaeological narrative to unearth the lives and stories still buried there.The book begins with an introduction to the estate's history, detailing its ownership by prominent families such as the Rosses, Scotts, Worthingtons, and Welshes. Schablitsky highlights the landscape of the estate, including the unique thirty-two-square-foot stone quarter built for enslaved people.

With sensitivity and scientific rigor, Schablitsky shifts focus to the enslaved people who lived and labored at Belvoir for more than eighty years. Through detailed excavation of the stone quarter and analysis of everyday artifacts--buttons, tobacco pipes, food remains, ceramics--she reconstructs the daily life, acts of resistance, and the cultural endurance of a community forced to navigate brutality.

Yet what makes Belvoir especially vital is its ethical compass. Schablitsky centers the voices of descendants, allowing their questions, memories, and presence to shape the narrative. The result is a groundbreaking archaeological case study and a blueprint for restorative justice at sites of enslavement. Scholars, archaeologists, and general readers alike will find Belvoir a deeply human, profoundly necessary book, one that confronts the past with clarity, care, and the hope of reconciliation.

Julie M. Schablitsky is the chief archaeologist at the Maryland Department of Transportation and adjunct assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Maryland. She is editor of Box Office Archaeology: Refining Hollywood's Portrayals of the Past and coeditor of An Archaeology of Desperation: Exploring the Donner Party's Alder Creek Camp and Archaeology of the War of 1812.

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