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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.
 
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University of Maryland archaeologists presented research in an exhibition about the lives of enslaved African Americans.
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Descendants of enslaved people at Wye House Plantation describe how archaeology informs 
their personal lives and communities.
Descendants video produced by Assemble for the exhibition.
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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.
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Evidence of food ways, plant cultivation and spiritual rituals of enslaved people are revealed through archaeological processes in the field and in the laboratory.

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