[Pharmboy]

Thanks to SunkenCiv for alerting me to this interesting find and story.

[ClearCase_guy]

American slaves played a sophisticated, technical role

Meaning: they put pointed objects near the doorway, in order to keep harmful spirits from entering the building.

[Pharmboy]

RevWar/Colonial History/General Washington ping list...

[Louis Foxwell]

There are many remarkable colonial treasurers on the Eastern shore of MD. Both sides of my family settled there in the mid 1600’s.
I once located an ancestral home fron the 1800’s buried deep in the woods south of Cambridge in an area known as Church Creek. It was being used as a hunting lodge but had fallen into severe disrepair.
The region where my ancestors settled after leaving the Jamestown colony is still today called World’s End. It is a mosquito infested swamp with virtually no residents.

[Sacajaweau]

Interesting but the purpose/ownership of the items are up for grabs. Too much speculation but historians love to put a story to their finds...right or wrong.

[jy1297]

Its sounds to me the the black man is responsible for GMO’s 150 years ago experimenting with broccoli.

[wagglebee]

Great story, thanks for posting!

[mac_truck]

That first item looks like an indian arrowhead, which can be found buried all over the place.

[Iron Munro]

The annual bombardment of stories rehashing black history begins.

It only lasts 365 days each year.

Maybe if people start spending a little time looking ahead instead of 100% focused in the rear view mirror they might realize they are letting year after year of opportunity slip by.

[Lion Den Dan]

Hogwash.

[silverleaf]

yesirree, that sure shows some advanced technical skills and sophistication

why, these folks really DID build the pyramids and fly around them too

sarc

Sorry Pharm the race card done xpired for me

[Albion Wilde]

Italian-American people who built my house threw baby booties behind a wall they sealed up, there were bus tokens and bingo tickets under the floor boards, and in the teenage boy’s room there was a skin magazine with pages stuck together hidden in a dropped ceiling panel, since the Italians do many things in secret. I’m humiliated not to have contacted a leading Italian Studies professor to document this “hidden Italian face” and present his findings on Columbus Day.

Not.

[Conan the Conservative]

So the mule that pulls the plow gets credit for the discovery of agriculture?

[Graybeard58]

In West African practice, placing metal and pointed objects at the doorway helps deter harmful spirits from entering.

My gun is metal and shoots pointed objects, I never knew I had anything in common with West Africans.

[RedMDer]

Interesting. Thanks for posting.

[colorado tanker]

Part of the Wye plantation became the conference center where Clinton brokered a deal between Israel and Arafart just before the Intifada flared back up. Elian Gonzalez and his father were there for a few days before being sent back to the Peoples Paradise.

Frederick Douglass wrote of the plantation. Lots of history there.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Maryland PING!

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Very interesting!