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Lecture: Matt Warshauer: New London, the Sugar Trade, and Slavery in the West Indies

Name: Lecture: Matt Warshauer: New London, the Sugar Trade, and Slavery in the West Indies
Start: 2024-03-06T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-03-06T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Lyman Allyn Art Museum

March 6 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

$10 – $20

The Lyman Allyn Art Museum is pleased to partner with the Thames River Heritage Park to host their 2024 lecture series, Stories from the Park: Island Affairs of the Thames.

Connecticut’s Sweet Tooth – New London, the Sugar Trade and Slavery in the West Indies: Professor Matt Warshauer shares stories about the Thames River region when it was the most important port of trade in all of British North America and served as a hub for a dizzying array of goods collected via an intricate trade network and then shipped south to the Caribbean.
Reception:6 pm
Lecture: 7 pm

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