Past event

Book Event: Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery by Seth Rockman (Brown University)

Friday, November 22 2024 at 03:30 PM
94 George Street, Providence, RI
The image is the book cover of Seth Rockman's book Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery. It depicts a weaving and two shovels.

Join us as the John Carter Brown Library and the Brown History Department present Professor Seth Rockman's new book Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery (Chicago University Press, 2024). Speakers will include Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of History at Harvard University, and Keisha N. Blain, Professor of History and Africana Studies at Brown University.

More information about the book is available at https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/author/R/S/au8153909.html.

Watch the event recording here:

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This event was co-sponsored by the Brown History Department.