This book focuses on the intersectionality of race, class, and practice at the Black community of Timbuctoo. Founded in 1825 by formerly enslaved migrants from Maryland Timbuctoo was one of several antebellum communities in southern New Jersey. The locations of these free communities were due to the influence of Quakers who offered legal support and employment to Black residents. Timbuctoo along the Greenwich Line of the Underground which took people escaping slavery from the Delaware Bay to New York. Despite some assistance by Quaker abolitions, New Jersey was hostile rife with racism and slavecatchers. The people of Timbuctoo endured several interactions with slavecatchers, including, the Battle of Pine Swamp, where armed residents thwarted the attempt of George Alberti to arrest “fugitive” Perry Simmons. The residents of Timbuctoo continued to fight as several of the men enlisted in the United States Colored Troops, including William Davis whose homestead was the focus for archaeological research. This book takes a multiscalar approach to understanding the everyday lives at Timbuctoo from settlement patterns and landscape archaeology, to in-depth interpretations on artifact types, like peanut butter and home canning. Uncovered in these analyses are stories of the struggles of life along the color line. However, these stories are also about perseverance and the ability of individuals to aspire. Oral histories from the community elders convey how despite life of poverty that the people of Timbuctoo formed a collective identity; a community of self-described, “Bucktonians”