383 Aquatic Culture in Early America
Kevin Dawson joins us to investigate the African American acquatic culture that played a vital role in establishing the infrastructure and trade of Colonial America and the early United States.
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Show Notes
If you will recall from Episode 331, the Williamsburg Bray School is the oldest existing structure in the United States that we know was used to educate African and African American children.
As the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation prepares the Bray School for you to visit and see, we’re having many conversations about the history of the school, its scholars, and early Black American History in general.
During one of these conversations, the work of Kevin Dawson came up. Kevin is an Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Merced and author of the book, Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora.
Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/383
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