Joint Heritage
Archaeology at Wye House Plantation
University of Maryland College Park
at Academy Art Museum
Assemble provided content development, exhibition design and video production services for a traveling exhibition presenting University of Maryland research on the lives of enslaved African Americans at the historic site where Frederick Douglass was enslaved.
Descendants of enslaved people at Wye House Plantation describe how archaeology informs
their personal lives and communities.
their personal lives and communities.
Descendants video produced by Assemble for the exhibition.
Collections were exhibited from excavations at Wye House Plantation on the Eastern Shore of Maryland,
the site where Frederick Douglass was enslaved as a child.
the site where Frederick Douglass was enslaved as a child.