Public Program, Conversation
The Legacy of the China Trade in Massachusetts: Families, Fortunes, & Foreign Luxuries
registration required
30 July 2019.Tuesday, 6:00PM - 7:30PM
There will be a pre-talk reception at 5:30.
Caroline Frank, Brown University; Dane Morrison, Salem State
University; Moderator: Gwenn Miller, College of the Holy Cross
There is a $10 per person fee (no charge for MHS Fellows and Members or EBT
cardholders).
We live in a society where Chinese-made commodities are a part of everyday life. But dependence on foreign goods is not a modern American phenomenon. The economic, political, and social dimensions of early trade with China were felt on the domestic and individual levels, as reliance on tea, silks, and other materials sourced from China became staples in early American households. Massachusetts merchant families were able to capitalize on a hunger for these goods to shape the city as well as their own fortunes.
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