Seth Rockman, associate professor of history at Brown University and author tells the biggest stories of early American history through the most mundane artifacts: shoes manufactured in Massachusetts for the use of enslaved people in Mississippi, for example, or woolen dresses stitched in Rhode Island for enslaved women in South Carolina. In following these goods from the communities in which they were made to the communities in which they were used, Rockman rethinks the geography of slavery and freedom in the decades between American independence and the Civil War.

Free - Registration is not required. Books will be available for purchase at each talk courtesy of TidePool BookShop.

Part of the Local Stories in Celebration of Black History Month Series.