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Oct 18, 2024 | 7:58 AM
Dr. Shawn Lambert is an associate professor and undergraduate coordinator at Mississippi State University.
NATCHEZ, Miss. — Dr. Shawn Lambert, associate professor and undergraduate coordinator at Mississippi State University, is inviting the public to his presentation on the Prospect Hill Plantation.
Lambert’s talk will focus on the archaeology of his
enslavement project at Prospect Hill. His topic is, “Before They were Settlers:
Material Culture and Spaces of Enslavement at the Prospect Hill Plantation.”
Lambert will deliver his hour-long presentation at 12:30
p.m., Thursday, October 24, 2024, at Dumas Hall, Room 107, Alcorn State
University, Lorman Campus. He will also share his presentation at 1 p.m.
Friday, October 25, 2024, at the Natchez Museum of African American History and
Culture, 301 Main St., Natchez.
The programs are sponsored by the Southwest Mississippi
Center for Culture and learning at Alcorn. They are free and open to the
public.
“Dr. Lambert’s work is significant in many ways,” said
Teresa Busby, executive director of the Southwest MS Center for Culture and
Learning. “I especially appreciate that he developed the work at Prospect Hill
as a multidisciplinary project that involved diverse scholars from several
areas of academia to help us better understand the history of enslavement in
the South. We will all benefit from Dr. Lambert sharing their findings with
us.”
According to Lambert, the research at Prospect Hill has
global significance. “It is research that represents the collaboration with
diverse communities and descendent communities as well as researchers from
other disciplines such as archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, historians,
and biological anthropologists,” he said.
Lambert noted the “research is a multivocal and
multi-perspective attempt to not only understand the history and archaeology of
enslavement at Prospect Hill in Mississippi, but also trace this reverse
African Diaspora to Liberia where hundreds of enslaved individuals from
Prospect Hill were resettled.”
Prospect Hill is located in Jefferson County. Lambert
described it as “an early-to-mid 19th century plantation site that, until
recently, has had very little anthropological research.”
The site played a significant role with early plantation
life in the South and with the American — and Mississippi Colonization
Societies — that relocated hundreds of enslaved people to Greenville, Liberia,
Lambert said.
“In this spirit, Prospect Hill is globally connected to
the history and development of West Africa and to local communities in
Mississippi,” he added.
Lambert works in the department of Anthropology and
Middle Eastern Cultures at his university.
According to his bio, his research interests include
protohistoric and historic decolonial and community-engaged archaeology in the
U.S. South with specific focuses in pre-European Contact Native American
communities, and the archaeology of enslavement in the American South.
Lambert is recognized as an expert in remote sensing
technologies, ceramic analysis, ancient iconography, organic residue analyses,
and elemental analyses of artifacts.
Lambert said he is “committed to working with diverse
descendant communities and the public to further decolonize archaeological
practice, strengthening relationships with underrepresented communities, and
making field work more inclusive and supportive for student experiential
learning.”
For more information, send email to tbusby@alcorn.edu
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