Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/28

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Subject: [Leica] PAW 3
From: gregj.lorenzo at shaw.ca (GREG LORENZO)
Date: Sun Nov 28 12:50:52 2004
 
Chandos Michael Brown writes in part

> These artifacts, which are currently the subject of
> investigation, were recovered from a plantation site in coastal South
> Carolina.  Their purpose is presently unknown, but they are remarkable
> evidence of some degree of Arabic script literacy among presumably
> Muslim slaves in late 18th century North America.  This sort of
> archeological evidence is fugitive, to say the least, and we are very
> excited to have acquired them.
> 
Very interesting historic PAW; both wrt the script and the fact that these 
survive intact for so many years. Do you know what was written exactly?

Regards,

Greg
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