Sentences with phrase «sunken slave ship»

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In this intriguing introduction to historical archaeology, Greene spotlights five sites of recent investigation: the Jamestown Fort, the sunken seventeenth - century ship La Belle, the slave quarters at Jefferson's Monticello, the Montana battlefield of Little Bighorn, and the Five Points neighborhood in New York City, a notorious slum in the mid-1800s.

Jaar's light box and Dawit L. Petros» Act of Recovery, a print of people standing on a coast before a sunken ship, questions the ways the term African American, in its intended use for descendants of African slaves in the United States, obscures the identities of South American descendant of slaves and the more recent histories of black immigrants living in the United States from the Caribbean or Africa.