Excited to present later this summer at the Revolutionary War Visitor Center in Camden, SC on Transatlantic Music. My talk will be on July 10 at 6pm.

RSVP here:
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Honored to have presented last week at the NASOH Conference in Natchez, MS. I presented my paper "Cosmopolitan Georgetown: Slavery, Rice, Indigo, and the World" alongside my brilliant colleagues on the "Ports, Rivers, and Fleets of South Carolina" panel.

#maritime #schistory #nasoh

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Elizabeth City, NC is a town at the mouth of the Pasquotank River. Initially a tiny sleepy port, EC's fortunes were completely upturned by the Dismal Swamp Canal (completed 1805). The canal, built mainly by enslaved people, connected EC to Norfolk and allowed expansion of the Chesapeake markets.

Georgetown, South Carolina was built circa 1730 for rice and indigo planters who'd settled along Winyah Bay to ship without having to go through Charleston. By the 1840s, the sheer amount of rice exports harvested by enslaved people made Georgetown the second richest port in the United States.