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African Diaspora

Aquatic Culture in Early America

February 13, 2019 by Liz Covart Leave a Comment

ben_franklins_worldThe Atlantic World has brought many disparate peoples together, which has caused a lot of ideas and cultures to mix.

How did the Atlantic World bring so many different peoples and cultures together? How did this large intermixing of peoples and cultures impact the development of colonial America?

In this episode of Ben Franklin’s World: A Podcast About Early American History Kevin Dawson, an Associate Professor of History at the University of California-Merced and author of Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), joins us to explore answers to these questions with an investigation of the African Diaspora and African and African American aquatic culture. [Read more…] about Aquatic Culture in Early America

Filed Under: Books, History Tagged With: African American History, African Diaspora, Aquatic Culture, Colonial America, Colonial History, Early America, Early American History, Podcasts, Water

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