Brown Bag
Superannuated: Old Age and Slavery’s Economy
30 January 2019.Wednesday, 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Nathaniel Windon, Pennsylvania State University
Plantation owners demarcated elderly enslaved laborers as “superannuated” in their logbooks. This talk examines some of the implications of locating the origin of old age on the antebellum American plantation
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