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Resistance in a South Carolina Plantation Slave Quarter

South Carolina Slave QuarterSedona AZ (April 12, 2016) – The Verde Valley Archaeology Center will host a talk by Dr. Sharon Moses who will present “Ritual Deposits and Resistance in a South Carolina Rice Plantation Slave Quarter.” The presentation will be in the Cliff Castle Casino Hotel meeting room on Tuesday, April 19, starting at 6:30 pm.

Excavations on a former rice plantation located in South Carolina Low Country have uncovered ritual niches under the dirt floors of slave cabins. Laws prohibited slaves from gathering in groups, expressing their beliefs openly or any form of ethnic expression that unified them in order to control brewing unrest and revolts. This guest lecture by Dr. Sharon K. Moses, examines how ritual deposits represent resistance and slave efforts to maintain African identities, despite attempts to convert them to Western European beliefs and culture.

Archaeology center logoDr. Moses is a registered professional archaeologist and received her Ph.D from Cornell University where she was an NSF (National Science Foundation) Fellow as well as the recipient of the Cornell SAGE Full Ride fellowship for the Anthropology graduate program. Her dissertation work was based upon on the child burials, rituals and other activities associated with children in the creation of sacred spaces in and outside of household dwellings at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey. Her work was conducted under the direction of Prof. Nerissa Russell (Cornell University) and under the auspices of Prof. Ian Hodder (Stanford University), Director of the Çatalhöyük Archaeological Project. She is currently an assistant professor of Anthropology/Archaeology at Northern Arizona University.

All Archaeology Center presentations are free and open to the public.

For more information on the visit the Center’s website at www.vvarchcenter.org or call the Center at 928-567-0066.

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