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Digging through dirt to find what divides us
Quick ReadHofstra dig a metaphor for race relations.
Photo credit: Newsday/Alan Raia | Hofstra students participate in the archaeological excavation for the remains of demolished slave quarters at the Joseph Lloyd Manor House. The Hofstra University team has found buried remains of two walls of the structure and hundreds of artifacts.
For three summers, they worked, swinging machetes through brush and then sifting through dirt and debris, to get to the mother lode: A spoon, a key, pieces of a colorful teacup, pieces of a horseshoe, the complete skeletons of fish laid down two centuries ago as fertilizer.
Since 2007, two anthropologists from Hofstra University, along with students, did the dirty and sometimes muddy, ofttimes...
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