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12019-07-15T14:10:11+00:00Commentary: Essay and Podcast11Kelly Wisecup Commentaryplain2022-06-13T20:45:08+00:00Summary
An account of household purchases may seem trivial or banal, but in the case of the Indigenous woman Mary Fowler Occom--whose history lies in the shadow of her better-known husband, the Mohegan preacher Samson Occom, who himself labored in the shadow of his erstwhile mentor, the founder of Dartmouth College--the details of housekeeping shine a light on what's otherwise hidden.
Download entire essay as PDFKelly Wisecup discusses Occom's accounting in this episode of our podcast series, Listening to Hidden Literacies.