[SEMCO] Nov. 13 Boston Seminar on Environmental History

[Alexis Buckley]

Boston Seminar on Environmental History at the Massachusetts Historical Society

Tuesday, November 13, 2018, 5:15 PM

Caroline Grego, University of Colorado Boulder
Ditched: Digging Up Black History in the South Carolina Lowcountry
Comment: Chad Montrie, University of Massachusetts Lowell

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.

RSVP required. To respond, email seminars at masshist.org<mailto:seminars at masshist.org> or call 617-646-0579.

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.

Subscribe to the 2018-2019 series online via https://www.masshist.org/2012/calendar/seminars/environmental-history. 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.

Questions? Email seminars at masshist.org<mailto:seminars at masshist.org>.

We look forward to seeing you at the seminar!




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Alexis Buckley, Research Coordinator & Book Review Editor
Massachusetts Historical Society
1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215
Phone: 617-646-0577, Fax: 617-859-0074
Email: abuckley at masshist.org
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