Date: May 04, 2009
Hofstra Team Returns to Lloyd Manor in June to Continue Slave Quarters Dig
Excavation part of "African America in Early New York" course
Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY – For the third consecutive summer, students will have the opportunity to work on an excavation of a Lloyd Harbor site believed to contain the remains of an 18th century slave quarter as part of a Hofstra summer course on archeological field methods.
Anthropology Professors Chris Matthews, Ph.D., and Jenna Coplin, will supervise a team that from June 24-July 31, 2009 will continue to excavate the Joseph Lloyd Manor site, begun in 2007. Students from Hofstra and other colleges uncovered the foundations of what is believed to be the slave quarter along with 18th century artifacts such as dishes, bottles, and animal bones.
"Students participating in the archaeology field school at Hofstra University not only learn how to recover history from things past peoples left behind, but they also explore what the past means today," said Professor Coplin. "Skills gained during this six-week course, such as on site problem solving, implementing strategies and testing ideas, will serve students in any of their future careers."
Joseph Lloyd Manor, a historic house museum house built in 1767, is owned by the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities, which invited the Hofstra team to conduct the dig. This is one of the first archeological studies of a slave quarter in New York State, and the structure may have housed as many as 10 enslaved persons. In addition to uncovering evidence of the slave quarter, students learn about the occupants' African heritage and the larger enslaved African community on Long Island at the time. Lloyd Manor is also well known as the residence of Jupiter Hammon, one of the first published African American poets, who was born a Lloyd family slave in 1711 and died about 1800.
For more information, please contact Professors Matthews or Coplin, Department of Anthropology, at anthlab@hofstra.edu (516) 463-7625
Hofstra University is a dynamic private institution where students can choose from more than 145 undergraduate and more than 160 graduate programs in liberal arts and sciences, business; engineering; communication; education, health and human services; and honors studies, as
Anthropology Professors Chris Matthews, Ph.D., and Jenna Coplin, will supervise a team that from June 24-July 31, 2009 will continue to excavate the Joseph Lloyd Manor site, begun in 2007. Students from Hofstra and other colleges uncovered the foundations of what is believed to be the slave quarter along with 18th century artifacts such as dishes, bottles, and animal bones.
"Students participating in the archaeology field school at Hofstra University not only learn how to recover history from things past peoples left behind, but they also explore what the past means today," said Professor Coplin. "Skills gained during this six-week course, such as on site problem solving, implementing strategies and testing ideas, will serve students in any of their future careers."
Joseph Lloyd Manor, a historic house museum house built in 1767, is owned by the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities, which invited the Hofstra team to conduct the dig. This is one of the first archeological studies of a slave quarter in New York State, and the structure may have housed as many as 10 enslaved persons. In addition to uncovering evidence of the slave quarter, students learn about the occupants' African heritage and the larger enslaved African community on Long Island at the time. Lloyd Manor is also well known as the residence of Jupiter Hammon, one of the first published African American poets, who was born a Lloyd family slave in 1711 and died about 1800.
For more information, please contact Professors Matthews or Coplin, Department of Anthropology, at anthlab@hofstra.edu (516) 463-7625
Hofstra University is a dynamic private institution where students can choose from more than 145 undergraduate and more than 160 graduate programs in liberal arts and sciences, business; engineering; communication; education, health and human services; and honors studies, as
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