Frederick Douglass and the Archaeology of Wye House

Leone, Mark P.; Knauf, Jocelyn E.; Tang, Amanda

doi:10.5479/10088/22458

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“…The study, carried out by the University of Maryland, concluded in February 2011 that the cultural and botanical evidence uncovered shows that African slaves played a sophisticated role in the construction and operation of the building. Furthermore, the excavations provided evidence to enable a greater understanding of ‘spirituality among the enslaved as well as the emergence of an African American religion that contained African beliefs and practices’ (Leone et al , ). Simultaneously, pollen analysis revealed the shift which had taken place in the orangery, from cultivation of flowers and medicinal herbs to exotic trees such as citrus.…”

Section: Citrus In Antiquity To the Early Modern Periodmentioning

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Citrus and Orangeries in Northern Europe

Wearn¹,

Mabberley²

2016

Curtis's Botanical Magazine

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Summary The genus Citrus comprises c. 25 species distributed from north‐east India and China to Australia and New Caledonia. Citrus fruits today make up the most significant component of fruit‐growing in warm countries, and extracts from them provide not only a very large share of the juice industry but are also used in many consumer products. When the first of them were brought to Europe, two millennia ago, however, they were not even consumed – the fruits being used for scenting and moth‐proofing clothes. From the 16th century onwards, the affluent commissioned glasshouses for citrus trees, called ‘orangeries’. This led to a phase of ‘citrusmania’, and citrus tree growing became a status symbol. The particular properties of their berries, called hesperidia, have in turn, led to their cosmopolitan significance as fruit‐crops.

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Section: Citrus In Antiquity To the Early Modern Periodmentioning

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Citrus and Orangeries in Northern Europe

Wearn¹,

Mabberley²

2016

Curtis's Botanical Magazine

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“…Wye House plantation is famous because Frederick Douglass (Douglass 1845(Douglass , 1855(Douglass , 1881) was a slave there, owned by one of the Lloyd family's overseers. My archaeological project, Archaeology in Annapolis, excavated there for nine years in the slave quarters (Jacobucci and Trigg 2010;Leone et al 2013;Russo 1992;Tang 2014;Tang and Skolnik 2012).…”

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Leone¹

2020

Current Anthropology

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A spirit bundle from Wye House, Talbot County, Maryland, is described and interpreted as a function of the Afro-Christianity created during and after the Atlantic slave trade. The bundle is made up mostly of worn shoes and boots; it dates to after Emancipation and was discovered in the 1990s. This interpretation attempts to use the Slave Narratives of the 1930s to understand the meaning of the bundle. The imminence of the supernatural in the bundle and the simultaneous structure of the nearby Methodist Episcopal and African Methodist Episcopal churches is tied to the early Christian debates of the third and fourth centuries of the immediacy and individuality of access to God in contrast to the hierarchical structure of the church.

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