The bones of an enslaved man and woman, found near the St. Mary’s river, were excavated so they are not lost to the elements. Archaeologists have now declared that they are among the oldest African American burials ever found in the state.
She was buried on her side, as if sleeping, a few yards away. One of her teeth had been intentionally altered, most likely in Africa, experts said, beforeThey were exhumed this spring to save them from the elements, and archaeologists have now declared that they are among the oldest African American burials ever found in the state.earliest individuals of African descent ever studied in Maryland,” said Travis Parno, acting executive director of Historic St.
Bush, who is also Community Affairs Liaison at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, said too often the dark story of slavery has been ignored in the teaching of the country’s history.“Growing up down here and visiting [historic sites] it was one of those things that you never envisioned yourself as being part of the picture,” said Bush.
The plan is to have them undergo examination at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, in Washington, and then be properly reburied. Those arrangements have not yet been made.Douglas Owsley, the museum’s curator of biological anthropology, said the structure of the man’s face and skull, and the woman’s altered tooth, indicate that the two people were of African descent.
The first permanent White settlers came to what is now St. Mary’s City, in southern Maryland, in 1634. Enslaved Africans arrived soon after.“From the early 1630s, we know there were enslaved people here,” Parno said. “Enslavement began from the outset” and spread dramatically over next few decades. But before the move, the Maryland legislature in 1664 enacted a comprehensive slave code — the first in English-speaking North America, Parno said.
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