Black Bodies, White Gold: Unpacking slavery and North American cotton production (Online with Agnes)
When:
Friday, December 3, 2021
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Where:
ONLINE
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Description:
Join Curator Jason Cyrus and special guests for this online series of talks on topics connected to the exhibition History Is Rarely Black or White.
The global thirst for cotton was fueled by the atrocities of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Anna Arabindan Kesson will join History Is Rarely Black or White curator Jason Cyrus and conservator Anne-Marie Guérin to discuss the ways in which they harnessed science, conservation, and historical research to spotlight the Black life at the core of the Victorian cotton industry.
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