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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">For nearly three centuries, Black sea islanders enslaved and free have dug thousands of miles of ditches that channeled the South Carolina Lowcountry, for
purposes from rice to phosphate to mosquito control. This piece explores the evolving projects of environmental use and management in the Lowcountry, through the conduit of ditches, and traces the history of how the environment, politics, and labor intersected
in the miry ditches of the region from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">RSVP required.</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black"> To respond, email
<a href="mailto:seminars@masshist.org" target="_blank" title="mailto:seminars@masshist.org">
seminars@masshist.org</a> or call 617-646-0579.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">Unless stated, all seminars take place at the Society, 1154 Boylston St., Boston, and commence at 5:15 PM. After each session the Society will provide a
light buffet supper. In case of inclement weather, phone 617-536-1608 for information.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">Subscribe to the 2018-2019 series online via
<a href="https://www.masshist.org/2012/calendar/seminars/environmental-history">https://www.masshist.org/2012/calendar/seminars/environmental-history</a>. A $25 subscription allows access to the full series of papers for the year, as well as the papers for
the Boston Seminar on African American History, the Boston Seminar on Modern American Society and Culture, and the Boston Area Seminar on Early American History. Papers are posted three weeks before the seminar; the Nov. 13 paper is now online.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">Questions? Email
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">We look forward to seeing you at the seminar!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i>Fashioning the New England Family</i> is on display at the MHS Monday through Saturday from 10 AM to 4 PM through 6 April, 2019. More information is available at www.masshist.org..
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Alexis Buckley, Research Coordinator & Book Review Editor<br>
Massachusetts Historical Society<br>
1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215<br>
Phone: 617-646-0577, Fax: 617-859-0074<br>
Email: abuckley@masshist.org<br>
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