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Digging for Slave Histories at Levi Jordan Plantation
UH anthropology team led by Kenneth Brown probes the Levi Jordan sugar mill in Brazoria County searching for a metal cache and artifacts tied to enslaved Africans. Finds suggest West African spiritual practices persisted at the plantation through encoded deposits and crossroads symbolism across multiple sites.
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The
Houston Chronicle
Brown
Levi Jordan
Brazoria
Jordan
Louisiana
Georgia
South Carolina
Carolinas
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of
Washington D.C
Smithsonian
Brazoria County
Texas Historical Commission
Histori
Cal
Spiris
Mikey
Mason
Jordan Plantation
University of Houston
Allison Holmes