The Hampton Project, led by Dr. Cheryl Janifer LaRoche, Is where I worked as an intern. The project which investigates the lives and fates of hundreds of African Americans who were enslaved in the Hampton plantation, It seems mainly a historical-anthropological project. However, in its core it is also related to representation and social and political power -including the work that was assigned to me- which was sorting and finding the names of the people who were enslaved in Ridgely’s properties. Again, as the project appears to be mainly a scholarly effort to tie parts of history to the present, it is hard for one not to view the system of slavery as a result of a hegemonic culture. Moreover, this systematic aggression towards certain ethnic
