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A three day series in honor of the late historian, Carl Becker. Seth Rockman presents the first lecture of the Plantation Goods and the Material History of American Slavery series: Plantation Entrepreneurs and their Captive Consumers.

Below is an overview of the project:

Plantation Goods and the Material History of American Slavery
 
Seth Rockman’s project studies the entangled labor histories that linked wage-labor factories in the nineteenth-century Northern United States to plantations worked by enslaved labor in the US South. His research into material culture reveals the intimate links between the working lives of both enslaved and free, Black and white—separated by thousands of miles but bound together by interregional commerce in shoes, shovels, hats, hoes, and textiles.
 
 
  • Lecture 1: Plantation Entrepreneurs and their Captive Consumers
  • Lecture 2: Mobilizing the New England Countryside for Plantation Labor
  • Lecture 3: Affordances and the Material Politics of Enslavement

 

Seth Rockman received a BA from Columbia University and completed his PhD at UC-Davis. After several years on the faculty of Occidental College in Los Angeles, Rockman joined the Brown History Department in 2004. His 2009 book Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore won the OAH's Merle Curti Prize, the Philip Taft Labor History Book Award, and the H.L. Mitchell Prize from the Southern Historical Association. Rockman and Sven Beckert co-edited Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development (Penn Press, 2016). Rockman spent the 2016-17 year at re:work, a research institute on global labor history at the Humboldt University in Berlin. 

The public is invited.  Please pre-register by emailing the department_of_history with your name, phone number, and address.  COVID-19 protocols will be in place and visitors must show proof of vaccination or a recent negative COVID test.

 

 

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