Jared Hardesty, Western Washington University: Two Sisters, a Merchant, and a Mercenary: Rethinking Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Boston (MHC Eighteenth-Century Studies)
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This talk uses Fairfield Plantation in the Dutch plantation colony Suriname and the people associated with it—owners, business partners, and visitors—as a lens to reassess slavery and its importance in eighteenth-century Boston. While there has been an...