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Recognizing the lives of the enslaved at the historic site of Mount
ClareEnslaved African Americans helped transform the United States
economy, culture, and history. Yet these individuals' identities,
activities, and sometimes their very existence are often all but
expunged from historically preserved plantations and house museums.
Reluctant to show and interpret the homes and lives of the
enslaved, many sites have never shared the stories of the African
Americans who once lived and worked on their land. One such site is
Mount Clare near Baltimore, Maryland, where Teresa Moyer pulls no
punches in her critique of racism in historic preservation. In her
balanced discussion, Moyer examines the inextricably entangled
lives of the enslaved, free Black people, and white landowners. Her
work draws on evidence from archaeology, history, geology, and
other fields to explore the ways that white privilege continues to
obscure the contributions of Black people at Mount Clare. She
demonstrates that a landscape's post-emancipation history can make
a powerful statement about Black heritage. Ultimately she argues
that the inclusion of enslaved persons in the history of these
sites would honor these "ancestors of worthy life," make the social
good of public history available to African Americans, and address
systemic racism in America. Publication of the paperback edition
made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American
Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
An Administrative History of Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
documents the changing NPS management of a site to the present day.
It illuminates the choices that bring us to the experience of
Harpers Ferry that we have today and provides the park with case
studies to learn from and to inform future decisions and ways of
approaching the resources of the park.
Despite the contributions of enslaved African Americans to our
country's economy, culture, and history, records of their existence
are all but expunged from plantation sites, which are reluctant to
show and interpret the homes and lives of the enslaved. One such
site is Mount Clare near Baltimore, Maryland, where Teresa Moyer's
work examines the lives of the plantation's enslaved and
investigates the issues keeping these findings from being publicly
presented. In this balanced discussion of racialized practice at
historic site museums, Moyer presents a rich and contextualized
study of the inextricably entangled lives of the enslaved, free
blacks, and white landowners. She demonstrates that inclusive
interpretation of plantation and other historic house museum sites
can be done. Moyer argues that the inclusion of enslaved persons in
the history of these sites would honor those "ancestors of worthy
note," make the social good of public history available to African
Americans, and address systemic racism in America.
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