383 Aquatic Culture in Early America

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If you will recall from Episode 331, the Williamsburg Bray School is the oldest existing structure in the United States that we know was used to educate African and African American children.

As the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation prepares the Bray School for you to visit and see, we’re having many conversations about the history of the school, its scholars, and early Black American History in general. During one of these conversations, the work of Kevin Dawson came up. Kevin is an Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Merced and author of the book, Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora.

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Complementary Episodes

• Episode 104: The Saltwater Frontier: Europeans & Native Americans on the Northeastern Coast
• Episode 241: Pearls and the Nature of the Spanish Empire
• Episode 250: Virginia, 1619
• Episode 277: Who's Fourth of July?
• Episode 331: Discovery of the Williamsburg Bray School
• Episode 347: African and African American Music
• Episode 352: James Forten and the Making of the United States

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