Mass Historical Society: "The Lives of Textiles: Trading and Consuming Clothing, Fabrics and Apparel Accessories in French and British North America, 1720s-1770s"

Date: 

Wednesday, May 18, 2016, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215-3695

Sarah Templier, Johns Hopkins University

This program will present an overview of Templier's dissertation research, which addresses how clothing and textiles, particularly valuable and exchangeable goods in the eighteenth-century Atlantic, circulated across social scale, through formal and informal channels of exchange.