On August 2, 2016 Library fellow Erin Holmes will discuss the results of her research topic Mount Vernon in the Georgian Atlantic World.
Holmes is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of South Carolina whose work explores how architectural space and the senses shaped relationships between masters and slaves on colonial plantations in South Carolina, Barbados, and Virginia. At Mount Vernon, she will be studying George Washington’s mid-eighteenth century transformation of the Mansion.