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Day 1 |
The American/Rhode Island Slave Trade |
| After a welcome and introduction to the institute by the co-directors, NEH Summer Scholars will hear a lecture entitled “That Unrighteous Traffick: Rhode Island and the Atlantic Slave System”on the trans-Atlantic slave trade and Rhode Island’s central role in it by Dr. James T. Campbell, Professor of Africana Studies and American Civilization at Brown University and former chair of Brown’s Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice. Dr. Campbell will explain the institutional context for this summer institute by introducing participants to the archival and historical work of the Brown Steering Committee and the collection of web-based resources Brown has made available for the use of educators. Dr. Grefe will then give a brief talk on using historic sites in the classroom and how to identify the good and useful elements in all field trips. Following this talk, Dr. Melish will lead teachers in a classroom simulation focusing on captives’ experiences during the Middle Passage across the Atlantic. The group will then travel to Bristol, Rhode Island, to tour and have lunch in the DeWolfe Tavern, a restaurant that occupies a former warehouse and slave-holding pen owned by the DeWolfes. In the afternoon, teachers will tour Linden Place, the spectacular 1810 federal mansion built on slave trading profits by James DeWolfe in Bristol. The day will wrap up with group meetings with the NEH Summer Scholars and Institute staff. |
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Day 2 |
Provisioning the West Indies |
| In the morning, NEH Summer Scholars will hear two lectures. First, Dr. Eric Kimball, Assistant Professor of History, Utah State University, will give a lecture, “New England and the West Indies Trade,” on the embeddedness of the colonial New England economy in the Atlantic slave system, the topic of his dissertation. Next, Dr. Christy Clark-Pujara, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, will lecture on the regimes of enslaved labor in southern New England that produced agricultural products for the West Indies trade. The lecture will be entitled, “The Plantation Economies of Southern New England.” Participants will then be bused to Royall House in Medford, Massachusetts, an estate built in 1732-39 by a West Indian planter who was the largest slave holder in Massachusetts in the mid-1700s. Royall House, a National Historical Landmark, is the site of the only surviving slave quarters in the northern United States. There, after a tour of the house and slave quarters, archaeologist Alexandra Chan, who co-directed a three-year excavation of the Royall House grounds, will give an interpretive talk on the landscape, artifacts, and architecture, and what they tell us about relations between slaves and master at the site. | |
