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Belvoir: An Archaeology of Maryland Slavery offers a fascinating account of the Belvoir Quarter for enslaved workers at Belvoir, a 1730's Maryland manor and plantation owned by descendants of Francis Scott Key. Julie M. Schablitsky excavated the brick and stone Belvoir Quarter and found architectural features with layers of artifacts spanning more than eighty years of habitation. Belvoir takes the discovery of the quarter along with its material culture, such as sherds, buttons, tobacco pipe stems, food remains, and spiritual items, and discusses the finds in the context of other similar sites of enslavement.

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""Belvoir is very well organized and well written. Books that do a deep dive into specific sites are always welcome. They are particularly important if they are accessible to the general reader as well as to archaeologists. Both of these audiences will enjoy this book."" --Barbara J. Little, author of Bending Archaeology toward Social Justice: Transformational Action for Positive Peace ""This is a must-read book. It illustrates historical archaeology at its finest and is a tour-de-force of fieldwork techniques and interpretations."" --Richard Veit, coeditor of Archaeologies of African American Life in the Upper Mid-Atlantic

""Belvoir is very well organized and well written. Books that do a deep dive into specific sites are always welcome. They are particularly important if they are accessible to the general reader as well as to archaeologists. Both of these audiences will enjoy this book."" --Barbara J. Little, author of Bending Archaeology toward Social Justice: Transformational Action for Positive Peace ""This is a must-read book. It illustrates historical archaeology at its finest and is a tour-de-force of fieldwork techniques and interpretations."" --Richard Veit, coeditor of Archaeologies of African American Life in the Upper Mid-Atlantic ""In a time when the history of slavery in America is being denied, covered up and shamefully erased, it is important for books like this to be published. It is not to shame anyone or point fingers and appoint blame, but to give an accurate account of the lives of people who were unwillingly brought to these shores to build and maintain the lives of their enslavers."" --Wanda Watts, resident of Baltimore City.

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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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