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Portici, a prosperous middling plantation, was the home of about one dozen enslaved African-Americans in the mid-nineteenth century. Excavations uncovered artifacts which were brought from Africa to America, such as one of the rings pictured below. The carved
finger ring of ebony, a native African
wood (center) likely came from Africa
with its owner. Rings of domestic horn
(right) or bone (left) were fashioned
here by African-Americans.
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