Nancy Freeman standing in front of her home in Derby in the 1890s

ANTH 420 African Diaspora Archaeology (CRN 13576)

Class3:05-5:55 pmThursday Ebenezer D. Bassett Hall 406

Examination of early African diaspora life via analysis of archaeological remains. Consideration of issues such as diversity of populations, health and diet, and labor conditions. Including study of the considerable research carried out by CCSU’s own Archaeology Laboratory for African & African Diaspora Studies (ALAADS). For example, since 2010, ALAADS professors have worked with students, volunteers, and descendants excavating the homesite of one, and potentially two, Black Governors: Quash Freeman and his son Roswell in Osbornedale State Park, Derby, Connecticut to raise awareness of the Black Governors as part of the historic African American presence in Connecticut.