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L'Encyclopédie, ou, Dictionnaire raisonne des sciences, des arts et des métiers [Plate 83], Denis Diderot, 1763. MVLA

Bring your lunch and learn about Library Fellow Jennifer Van Horn's research project, Base Metal: Iron, Enslavement, and Insurgence in the Early United States

Using the resources at the George Washington Presidential Library, Horn is researching the relationships between iron production, its use, and enslaved people of African origin and descent to recover iron as an insurgent material in the late colonial period and early republic.

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About the Presenter

Jennifer Van Horn holds a joint appointment as professor of Art History and History at the University of Delaware. She is the author of The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America (2017), which was a finalist for the George Washington Prize, and Portraits of Resistance: Activating Art during Slavery (2022). She co-edited a special double issue of Winterthur Portfolio entitled “Enslavement and Its Legacies” and is now co-editing the collected volume The Disabled Gaze: Multi-Sensory Perspectives of Art, Bodies & Objects. She serves as the president of the Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture (HECAA).