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Posted on 03/27/2008 7:42:10 PM PDT by Pharmboy
The American fight for liberty was not only the domain of John Adams and his fellow Boston patriots — although HBO's miniseries might lead us to believe that. The fight also took place much closer to home in places like Annapolis, where a recently opened archaeological exhibit at the Banneker-Douglass Museum shows how an 18th-century printmaker protested the British Stamp Act tax and how mid-19th-century freed slaves fought discrimination by purchasing brand-name canned goods and bottled libations.
"They preferred national brands because of the predictability of price and guarantee of quality," says Mark Leone, founder and director of Archaeology in Annapolis, the group behind the digs and discoveries displayed. He also is a professor of archaeology at the University of Maryland. Adds Amelia Chisholm, an archaeology student at the university: "It's fascinating how you can tell someone's race and class from broken pieces of glass and rusted cans." And from fish and meat bones.
The bottles and cans were found at the Maynard-Burgess House in downtown Annapolis along with animal bones that indicate the black residents fished in streams and hunted in nearby woods, probably because they would have been shortchanged by butchers and fishmongers.
"Just the cuts of meat can tell you a huge amount about a whole group of people," Ms. Chisholm says. Yet this black household wanted to fit in and belong in mainstream America while still keeping its African and African-American traditions. "It's the two souls of black folk. The facade toward the street: the Victorian parlor [with upscale china and furniture] while the back was devoted to African traditions," Mr. Leone says.
Their African traditions included making African foods and engaging in West African religious practices. According to the exhibit, blacks, who themselves had been commodities
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What a bunch of racist victimology crap! Most people who hunt and fish do so because.........
they like to hunt and fish!
Sounds exactly like the kind of retarded PC liblarkey mis-conclusion one would expect from an anthropology department grad student in one of our liberal hell-hole indoctrination centers (aka "Liberal Arts Colleges").
Well, I winced at that also. How did they know they were shortchanged or short-weighted? These folks can see racism in a fish bone, eh?
Sounds like what they really dug up was a TON of conjecture.
Agree...an otherwise very interesting find and article completely degenerated by run-a-muck pc & victimologist interpretations.
the black residents fished in streams and hunted in nearby woods, probably because they would have been shortchanged by butchers and fishmongers.
Boy, they got to lay it on with a trowel, can’t help themselves.
aint that the truth
This was a very common custom in England and the colonies, and might not have anything to do with African customs.
...indicate the black residents fished in streams and hunted in nearby woods, probably because they would have been shortchanged by butchers and fishmongers.
Obvious insertion of modern victim values to a 19th century community. Maryland was a slave state, but there's little reason to think that butchers and fishmongers would have cheated regular customers. Subsistance fishing and hunting by the poor, both Black and White must have been very common.
Probably by comparing the consumption habits of blacks to those of the nearby white communities. If whites tended to purchase a higher proportion of their meat and fish than did blacks, there must be a reason for it. Blacks could have had a cultural preference for hunting, but this is doubtful--centuries spent in slavery doesn't exactly foster a gun culture. It's more likely they were too poor to buy food (and this can be controlled by only comparing representatives of the same income groups) or the vendors didn't want their business. Or perhaps unscrupulous vendors just ripped them off, knowing that recently-freed slaves had practically no recourse to fight this kind of injustice.
Got that far and decided to abort...
This is by no means an attack on the South, we are 4 or 5 generations removed from the CW, we can only examine the events thru the imperfect eye of time. I hate the reverends (Jerkson, Convicted Liar, J. Wrong, etc.) the modern white liberal plantation masters, assorted poverty pimps that keep most black people down on the liberal plantation to serve as expendable foot soldiers in their war on law, order, the Constitution, society as a whole. I think that black people at the conclusion of the CW, in most cases, simply wanted to fit in. I have seen many times a graphic that shows that prior to the (not so) Great Society, black wealth, married homes, etc. were headed upward and the trend has fallen dramatically since the '60s when they were "liberated" by the America hating communists.
Just hold your nose at the editorializing and see what they found...
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
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" How did they know they were shortchanged or short-weighted? Probably by comparing the consumption habits of blacks to those of the nearby white communities."
Both interpretations are highly speculative.
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I am presently engaged in a project (funded by both States) to inventory the historic, archaeological and natural (tourism) resources surrounding historic Caddo Lake, which straddles the TX/LA border.
One of our more interesting discoveries is that of a vibrant, mixed Caddo Indian/Black community/culture that call themselves "The River Folk".
Each summer, they traditionally leave their houses and congregate in camps along "the River", (Big Cypress Bayou above Caddo Lake) where they spend the summer, hunting and fishing, and generally "livin' off the River" -- as many generations of their predecessors did.
As one "River Man" who toured us through their campgrounds this Winter told us, Livin' off the River -- that's the good life! The rest of the year we be just makin' it 'til the next summer..."
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Sometimes, folks just do what they want to do...
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(FYI, we plan to help protect the "River Folk" by steering visitors away from their "River Camps"...)
Apologies, intended to copy you on #16, too. ...and thanks for the interesting post...
Excellent!
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“How did they know they were shortchanged or short-weighted? “
Rev. Wright told them
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