"PLANTATION GOODS" Lecture by author Seth Rockman at Museum of Worcester
Rockman will discuss his recent publication PLANTATION GOODS, A MATERIAL HISTORY OF AMERICAN SLAVERY. An associate professor of history at Brown University Rockman tells the biggest stories of early American history through the most mundane artifacts: shoes manufactured in Massachusetts for the use of enslaved people in Mississippi, for example, or woolen dresses stitched in Rhode Island for enslaved women in South Carolina. As he follows these goods from the communities in which they were made to the communities in which they were used, Rockman rethinks the geography of slavery and freedom in the decades between American independence and the Civil War.
Fletcher Auditorium, 30 Elm Street, Worcester. This event is FREE and open to the public!
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