Dr. Daniel Rood will discuss his latest release, In the Shadow of the Great House: A History of the Plantation in America. This highly praised book examines the plantation as a central institution in American history, showing that it did not disappear with emancipation but reemerged under new regimes of labor and extraction. Tracing this continuity across four centuries, Rood makes clear why the plantation remains essential to understanding inequality, labor, and capitalism in the United States today.

Dr. Rood is an associate professor of history at the University of Georgia, specializing in the history of Atlantic slavery.

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