June 2009
Articles, Essays, and Reports
Mexico's Cimarron Heritage and Archaeological Record
Terrance Weik
A Haven from Slavery on Florida's Gulf Coast:
Looking for Evidence of Angola on the Manatee River
Uzi Baram
Aspects of the Atlantic Slave Trade:
Smoking Pipes, Tobacco, and the Middle Passage
Jerome S. Handler
Pieces of Chocolate:
Surveying Slave and Planter Life
at Chocolate Plantation, Sapelo Island, Georgia
Nicholas Honerkamp and Rachel L. DeVan
Some Reflections on Relics of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
in the Historic Town of Badagry, Nigeria
Alaba Simpson
Uncovering Inspiration: Current Archaeology Investigations
of Harriet Tubman in Central New York
Douglas V. Armstrong and Anna Hill
The Magens House: Archaeology of a Complex Urban House Compound in the Port Town of Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas
Douglas V. Armstrong, Christian Williamson, and Alan Armstrong
Changing Cultural Landscapes and Heritage Tourism Potentials
of Ijaiye-Orile Archaeological Sites in Nigeria
Titilayo O. Olukole
Dissertation Abstracts
The Free African American Cultural Landscape: Newport, RI, 1774-1826
Akeia A.F. Benard
News and Announcements
States Lead Slavery Apology Movement
Christine Vestal
Africa's Genetic Secrets Unlocked
Victoria Gill
Tracing the Threads that Join America and Africa
Nicolai Ouroussoff
Announcements
Graduate Programs in African Diaspora Archaeology
Christopher Fennell
Society for Georgia Archaeology Publishes
Two-Part Volume on African-American Archaeology
J. W. Joseph
Graduate Programs in African Diaspora Archaeology
Christopher Fennell
Archaeology of the Bruin Slave Jail in Alexandria, Virginia
Lisa Kraus, John Bedell, and Charles Lee Decker
In Memoriam: Philip D. Curtin, 1922–2009
Pillarisetti Sudhir
New Books
Africa, Brazil and the Construction of Trans Atlantic Black Identities
Livio Sansone, Elisee Soumonni, and Boubacar Barry
Themes in West Africa's History
Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong
Africa and Archaeology: Empowering an Expatriate Life
Merrick Posnansky
Movements, Borders, and Identities in Africa
Toyin Falola and Aribidesi Usman
Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America
Andrew B. Fisher and Matthew D. O'Hara
Jim Crow America: A Documentary History
Catherine M. Lewis and J. Richard Lewis
The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture
Patrick Manning
South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times, Volume 1
Marjorie J. Spruill, Valinda Littlefield, and Joan M. Johnson
The Origins of Proslavery Christianity: White and Black Evangelicals in Colonial and Antebellum Virginia
Charles F. Irons
Conferences
Call for Papers
Book Reviews
The Slave Ship: A Human History
Marcus Rediker and Fred L. McGhee
Sampling Many Pots: An Archaeology of Memory and Tradition at a Bahamian Plantation
Laurie A. Wilkie, Paul Farnsworth, and Chris Espenshade
Archaeology and Culture History in the Central Niger Delta
Abi Alabo Derefaka and Zacharys Anger Gundu
For Hearth and Altar: African Ceramics from the Keith Achepohl Collection
Kathleen Bickford Berzock and Susan Cooksey
"Deep Roots:" Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora
Edda L. Fields-Black and Andrew Agha
The Archaeology of Alcohol and Drinking
Frederick H. Smith and Aaron Brummitt
Shades of Green: Visions of Nature in the Literature of American Slavery, 1770-1860
Ian Frederick Finseth and Simon Lewis
The Archaeology of Liberty in an American Capital: Excavations in Annapolis
Mark P. Leone and Charles Orser
Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Story of the Clotilda and the Last Enslaved Africans Brought to America
Sylviane A. Diouf and Nana Yaw B. Sapong