Chattel slavery in America, a racialized system, was the economic engine of the early United States. It was built upon and sustained by violence. Yet the people confined within this system did more than simply struggle to survive. Rather, they endeavored to find ways to transform sites of forced occupation into something else: homes.

Join us in conversation with historian Whitney Nell Stewart, author of This is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations. Dr. Stewart will be joined by Andrew Davenport, Director of African American History & The Getting Word African American Oral History Project at Monticello.