Economics of Slavery & Portsmouth's Early Black Community, Tues. March 18

Chattel slavery in Colonial America provided immense wealth and material culture to many European immigrants and their descendants in the Americas, as Portsmouth’s house museums bear witness. This talk, adapted from presenter Angela Matthews' Black Heritage Trail of NH tour, brings into sharp focus an economic system dependent upon international and domestic slave traders for a constant supply of free labor, such as the captive African people and their descendants who, against the odds, created one of this country’s oldest Black communities.

Registration is not required.