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Revolutionary Things - Ashli White
TO BE FEATURED IN A MOUNT VERNON BOOK TALK AND AUTHOR SIGNING ON JUNE 4, 2024
Historian Ashli White explores the circulation of material culture during the American, French, and Haitian revolutions, arguing that in the late eighteenth century, radical ideals were contested through objects as well as in texts. She considers how revolutionary things, as they moved throughout the Atlantic, brought people into contact with these transformative political movements in visceral, multiple, and provocative ways.
Focusing on a range of objectsāceramics and furniture, garments and accessories, prints, maps, and public amusementsāWhite shows how material culture held political meaning for diverse populations. Enslaved and free, women and men, poor and eliteāall turned to things as a means to realize their varied and sometimes competing visions of revolutionary change.