Wagner Free Institute of Science

Archaeologist Jillian Gale will discuss how she uses archaeological and archival data to document how people navigated enslavement.WEEKNIGHTS AT THE WAGNERLandscapes of Enslavement in the Chesapeake and Caribbean, with Jillian Galle, PhDAs an archaeologist, Jillian Galle studies how thousands of small artifacts, from ceramics and fish bone to tobacco pipes and glass trade beads, can reveal previously hidden patterns in human behavior. For twenty-five years, her work with The Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery at Monticello has brought together millions of artifacts, field notes, maps, and images from dozens of sites of enslavement across the American South and Caribbean.