March 2010
Articles, Essays, and Reports
Bioarchaeological Analysis of Historic Kormantse, Ghana
William C. Schaffer and E. Kofi Agorsah
Ditches and Ramparts as Evidence of Warfare Defenses in
19th Century Yorubaland: A View from Keesi, Southwestern Nigeria
James B. Odunbaku and Raphael A. Alabi
Race and Ethnicity in Early America Reflected through Evidence
from the Betsey Prince Archaeological Site, Long Island, New York
Allison Manfra McGovern
Beginnings of the African Diaspora in Texas: A Brief
Overview of the Bernardo Plantation Archaeology Project
Robert Marcom
Squatters Budgeree: Pipes for the Australian Market Recovered at
the Homestead of a Free Black Family in Sussex County, New Jersey
Megan E. Springate
African Influence on the Art of the United States
Robert Farris Thompson
News and Announcements
A Burial Ground and Its Dead Are Given Life
Edward Rothstein
Another African Burial Ground
Demetria Irwin
Haiti's History as First Black Republic Creates a Special Bond with Many African-Americans
Jesse Washington
Groundbreaking for Vesey Monument
David Slade
Black Schools Restored as Landmarks
Erik Eckholm
Harriet Tubman Relics to go to D.C. Museum
Stephan Salisbury
Announcement
2010 Archaeological Fieldschools Addressing African Diaspora Subjects
Christopher Fennell
New Books
African American Life in the Georgia Lowcountry: The Atlantic World and the Gullah Geechee
Philip Morgan
The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation: Stories of My Family's Journey to Freedom
John F. Baker Jr.
Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions
Jane G. Landers
Notes and Records: An International Journal of African and African Diaspora Studies
Raphael Chijioke Njoku and Matt Childs
Buildings & Landscapes Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum
Marta Gutman and Louis P. Nelson
Conferences
Call for Papers
Book Reviews
Coming Through: Voices of a South Carolina Gullah Community from WPA Oral Histories
Genevieve W. Chandler, Kincaid Mills, Genevieve C. Peterkin, and Christopher T. Espenshade
Colonial Blackness: A History of Afro-Mexico
Herman L. Bennett and Matthew F. Rarey
Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba
Ivor Miller and Jill Salmons