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Seth Rockman, History, Brown University, “Plantation Labor Outsourced: Rethinking New England Outwork and the National Economy of Slavery in Antebellum America”

February 16, 2018 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

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Rockman is the author of Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore (2008) and co-editor, with Sven Beckert, of Slavery’s Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development (2016). Scraping By 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 spent the 2016-17 year at re:work, a research institute on global labor history at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

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Date:
February 16, 2018
Time:
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Venue

HSSB 4041
University of California Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106 United States
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