Sugar, Slavery, and Revolution: The Real History of White Gold

  • Mon, Feb 28, 2022 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

  • Eastern Standard Time

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Description

Join Stratford Hall’s Director of Collections and Visitor Engagement, Dr. Kelley Fanto Deetz, for a lecture on the history of sugar in the Atlantic world. Deetz will discuss the cultural and political history of one of the most profitable crops in the colonial era. Focusing on material culture and culinary history, this lecture will highlight the role of enslaved laborers, abolitionists, and planters as they battled over this controversial ingredient. Join us for this Black History Month lecture to learn more about Sugar, Slavery, and Revolution in the Atlantic World. 

Dr. Kelley Fanto Deetz is a historian and archaeologist, and works as the Director of Collections and Visitor Engagement at Stratford Hall and a Visiting Scholar in the Department of African American Studies at U.C. Berkeley. She holds a BA in Africana Studies and History from The College of William & Mary and an MA and Ph.D. in African Diaspora Studies from the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of the critically acclaimed book Bound to the Fire: How Virginia’s Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine, which was named as one of the top ten books on food of 2017 by the Smithsonian Magazine. You can find her most recent work in Audible’s The Great Courses on the History of Sugar, and her contribution to the forthcoming cookbook California Soul, with celebrity and OWN tv star Chef Tanya Holland and Alice Walker.

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Date & Time

Mon, Feb 28, 2022 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Stratford Hall

Stratford Hall brings together people from around the world to experience two-thousand acres of natural and human history, preserved and presented so that we can all learn from the courageous struggles of our ancestors, taking inspiration both from what they endured and what they accomplished. 

Established by Thomas Lee in the 1730s, Stratford Hall is one of the great houses of American history. An important part of the Stratford Hall experience is an opportunity to learn about the courage and leadership of Richard Henry and Francis Lightfoot Lee as they signed the Declaration of Independence, and with their family, helped give birth to the United States of America. Visitors can also earn about other Lee family members, like Hannah Lee Corbin an outspoken thinker and one of our nation’s earliest known proponents of voting rights for women. And they can learn about the birth and early years of Robert E. Lee, who rose to become superintendent of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, a leader of the armies of the Confederacy, and president of Washington College.

At Stratford Hall, visitors will encounter two-thousand acres of natural and human history, preserved and presented so that we can about our past, from prehistoric times to today, and we can honor the courageous struggles of our ancestors, taking inspiration both from what they endured and what they accomplished. 

Come experience this extraordinary place that played a role in the birth of a nation. Where people can learn about a layered history that began millions of years ago. A history that continues to educate, inspire and influence Americans to the present day.


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