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Descendant Engagement and Unearthing Collective Memory in Hampton Roads
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Fort Monroe, where the first enslaved Africans arrived in English North America, was named a "site of memory" with the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Slave Route Project in February 2021. Join Fort Monroe National Monument Acting Superintendent Eola Lewis Dance as she discusses "Contraband" communities, archeology, and descendant engagement.
Dance is a 20-year employee of the National Park Service. She has served in many roles in public history and historic preservation to include Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site, and Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park. After serving as the National Capital Regional ethnographer, Eola joined the team at Colonial National Historical Park as the park historian and supervisor of Resources Stewardship and Science.
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