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As bicentennial celebrations continued across the country, a new subfield of Historical Archaeology was also forming. There was an increased effort to understand the material remains of what made us a nation of many. African American archaeology began as an extension of the effort to understand the lives of ordinary people. As practioners, we often focus on the work on plantations across the South, yet African American Archaeology did not have its roots on the plantation, it started with a field site in Andover, Massachusetts. In 1942 Ripley and Adelade Bullen were in search of evidence of possible Indigenous sites but discovered the homesite of Lucy Foster. A woman born into slavery, freed and eventually a part of a vibrant Andover community. Her story was not only unique, but it was also the first of its kind. This is the story of Lucy Foster, Adelaide Bullen, and a group of students who in wanted to tell her story and make a rightful place in Massachusetts colonial history to never be forgotten again.
Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship
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