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Article: A different diversity: Archaeologists uncover site where slaves, free blacks, immigrants worked together.
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- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
- Article date:
- June 26, 2007
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Byline: Jazzmen Tynes and Julie Scharper
Jun. 26--Under blue tents in Cockeysville, archeologists scrub shards of pottery with toothbrushes. Nearby, small flags jut from the grass and a hole reveals a stone foundation and steps.
It might seem an unlikely place for an archaeological project, just a short distance from Interstate 83 and a light rail stop. But it's where a team of archaeologists working with the Maryland State Highway Administration is unearthing the remnants of a small plantation where slaves, free blacks and European immigrants once labored side by side, an arrangement historians say was more common in Maryland than in other slave states. ...