Stanford Humanities Center
The first Winter quarter meeting of the Slavery and Freedom research workshop will feature Professor Seth Rockman (Department of History, Brown University).
In this talk, he will tell the biggest stories of early American history through the most mundane artifacts. In following these goods, he rethinks the geography of slavery and freedom in the decades between American independence and the Civil War. Posing the questions that continue to preoccupy us in the age of the iPhone and fair-trade coffee: What does it mean to be “complicit"?
About the Speaker
Seth Rockman is an associate professor of history at Brown University and the author of Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore and co-editor of Slavery’s Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development.
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Stanford Humanities Center
424 Santa Teresa Street
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