"Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery"
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Join us for a campus lecture on the history of American slavery by historian Dr. Seth Rockman.
The RIC History Department is hosting a presentation on the history of American slavery. Historian Seth Rockman, Brown University, will be discussing his recently released book, Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery.
Rockman examines slavery through mundane artifacts: shoes manufactured in Massachusetts for the use of enslaved people in Mississippi or woolen dresses stitched in Rhode Island for enslaved women in South Carolina to wear. In following these goods, he rethinks the geography of slavery and freedom before the Civil War. He poses questions that continue to preoccupy us in the age of the iPhone and fair-trade coffee; what are the moral, ecological, and political relationships linking consumers and producers across long distances? What does it mean to be complicit?
Sponsored by the RIC History Department and the RIC College Lectures Committee.
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