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As part of my Research Fellowship with the “Tale of Two Ships Project”, I traveled to Nantes, France from July 13, 2019 to July 23, 2019 with one of the co-super
Prior to coming to the QAR Lab as a research fellow, my experience with artifacts had been exclusively in a museum or repository setting. My knowledge of conservation was more in the context of maintenance where things already preserved, stored, or on display were temporarily pulled (for days or as much as a few months) for treatment in order to retain their condition.
My name is Hannah Francis; I am a PhD Candidate in the History Department at Rice University. As a graduate student, I research the history of French and Former-French colonies in the Atlantic World, places such as Haiti, Martinique and Louisiana. Currently, I am the Research Fellow for the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (NCR) “Tale of Two Ships Project,” which seeks to further uncover the history of La Concorde, the slave-trading ship Blackbeard captured and renamed Queen Anne’s Revenge.
The Tale of Two Ships Project has enabled me to research the history of La Concorde and Queen Anne’s Revenge, and grasp a more profound understanding of this one ship with very different identities.
My name is Grace Fawcett and I am an intern at the Queen Anne’s Revenge Conservation Lab in Greenville, NC, through the
I am Natash’ja Hunter, a native of Enfield, NC and a rising senior at Fayetteville State University. This summer I have the pleasure of serving as an intern at the NC Department of Natural & Cultural Resources (NCR) Queen Anne’s Revenge Conservation Lab (QAR Lab), through the HBCU/MIHE Internship Program.