Commentary: Essay and Podcast
An enslaved man in eighteenth-century Rhode Island kept an account book in fine handwriting. But how much can a simple inventory of goods, in pounds and pence, really tell us? As Tara Bynum reveals, it actually documents a vibrant African American community enjoying each other's company at a pig roast.
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Tara Bynum discusses the inventory of the pig roast in this episode of our podcast series, Listening to Hidden Literacies.