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I am very excited to share **Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery** with audiences around the country in the coming months. Please come say hello!
Seth Rockman
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Seth Rockman
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Historian at Brown University, author of *Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery* forthcoming from University of Chicago Press, Nov. 2024
- History of Capitalism syllabus discussion ahead, a 20 tweet thread. I'm refining a syllabus for a graduate seminar, essentially a 500-year survey across time, place, and methodology. The idea would be to introduce students to the field (to the extent I see it) 1/
- HISTORY OF CAPITALISM BIBLIOGRAPHY The spring 2021 @BrownHist graduate seminar compiled an extensive and eclectic annotated bibliography on the global history of capitalism. Hopefully there is something for everyone. Download here: doi.org/10.26300/z7sp-…
- Ever notice that very few scholars who work on the social history of enslaved people in the US, 1787-1860 are primed to celebrate the American Revolution for its "consequences" of creating the circumstances that would eventually result in the end of slavery? Think about why.
- A TEXTILE HISTORY OF ATLANTIC SLAVERY is now underway @BrownHist. This seminar for new college students explores African Diasporic history and material culture, utilizing the amazing recent scholarship on the topic. Can't wait to learn with (and from) these students!
- New course launches @BrownHist this week: “A Textile History of Atlantic Slavery.” The course will introduce students to the history of slavery and material culture methods, and consider how the material/visual record can respond to the silences of the (paper) archive. 1/8
- There is a simpler explanation to why the current slavery/capitalism historiography looks the way it does in terms of the focus on the post-Revolutionary US.This is correct. But thats why these are questions that can’t really be answered in a US-centric framework. For that the real story is in the Caribbean. North American slave economies were relatively marginal in wealth production until pretty late.
- Think academic book reviewing has gotten soft? From latest JAH: "His writing style is attractively informal, if occasionally too casual. His preface blames any errors on his cats (p.xiii). Presumably they are responsible for misspelling the name of James Fenimore Cooper (p. 72)."
- This is a tremendous public resource. Thank you @washingtonpost. More than 50% of Congressmen were slaveholders 1789-1807. washingtonpost.com/history/intera…
- Fantastic to see @projo re-publish this 2006 set of articles about Rhode Island and the slave trade. From @hartfordcourant's Complicity thru @nytimes and @nhannahjones's 1619, our newspapers have been at the forefront of getting this history right.
- A much-appreciated end-of-school-year present from an undergraduate: an embroidered shipping container in honor of the history of capitalism! Thank you!
