Dark Work: The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island

Christy Clark-Pujara, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Drawing from her book Dark Work: The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island (NYU Press, 2016), Dr. Clark-Pujara will examine how the business of slavery— economic activity that was directly related to the maintenance of slaveholding in the Americas, specifically the buying and selling of people, food, and goods— shaped the experience of slavery, the process of emancipation, and the realities of black freedom in Rhode Island from the colonial period through the American Civil War.

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