Daniel Rood in conversation with Peter Biello

Online ticket sales close at 5pm EST on the day of the event. Tickets will be available at the door prior to the event start time. From an acclaimed historian, a new history of American slavery and American capitalism, told through the setting where both developed. Over the last few decades, and especially in the last ten years, our understanding of slavery has been transformed by the work of many talented scholars. We have learned a great deal about the actions of enslavers, the struggles and victories of the enslaved, and how the afterlives of American slavery persist into the present. Yet Dan Rood’s In the Shadow of the Great House is one of the first contemporary books to focus on the primary engine of slavery, race, and capitalism in this country: the plantation. The plantation was...