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Seth Rockman is a specialist in Revolutionary and Early Republic United States history, with a focus on the relationship of slavery and capitalism in American economic and social development. The histories of race, labor, and social welfare are central to his research. Rockman supervised undergraduate research for the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice, and is now conducting his own research on the relationship of Northern manufacturing to the plantation economies of the South.
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Born in Indiana and raised in San Francisco, Seth Rockman received a BA from Columbia University and completed his PhD at UC-Davis. After several years on the faculty of Occidental College in Los Angeles, Rockman joined the Brown History Department in 2004. Recent awards include a NEH Long-term Fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society and a Charles A. Ryskamp Fellowship from the ACLS. His book Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore is now out from Johns Hopkins University Press. His new project-- under contract with University of Chicago Press-- focuses on the trade in "plantation goods" (shoes, farm tools, textiles, salt cod, whips, etc.) from New England to the Caribbean and American South during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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