COLLEGE PARK, MD.- An archaeological team from the University of Maryland is uncovering an unexpectedly rich haul of household materials from an historic African American home in Annapolis – with one more week to go in their excavation. The team is working at the James Holliday House in Annapolis – a middle class home purchased in 1850 by one of the first African Americans to work for the U.S. Naval Academy. They say their finds detail how a well-off African American family adapted a middle class lifestyle to the realities of post-Civil War Annapolis. Also, they are exploring the family’s marital ties to the city’s Filipino community. James Holliday – born a slave in 1809 and freed in 1819 – served as a messenger to the superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy for almost 40 years. He took the job in 1845, and five years later bought the home at 99 East Street in Annapolis. The excavation of the Holli