Tracy Jenkins, Ph.D. candidate, University of Maryland, explains anthropologic findings of students on The Hill, Easton, Md. including Civil War buttons and religious relics.
Tracy Jenkins under the guidance of Dr. Mark Leone (Dr. Leone's two podcasts can be listened to by going to www.carlisleschesapeake.com) and Professor Dale Green, oversaw digs on The Hill in Easton, Md. The Hill is where Frederick Douglass returned to dedicate two churches in 1878, anchors in the community. Methodism and the Quaker religion were driving forces in the First Emancipation of slavery. The Hill is a community where free African Americans rented and owned homes prior to the Civil War. Learn the significance of a Buffalo soldier's brass button during a time when military service was a pathway to citizenship for African Americans.