Foreclosed: Race and Dispossession in a Nineteenth Century Community.
Join us to welcome Donna J. Rilling for a discussion of her project preparing for her upcoming book: Foreclosed: Race and Dispossession in a Nineteenth Century Community.
Donna J. Rilling is Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York at Stony Brook where she focuses on the history of the early American republic. Her first book, Making Houses, Crafting Capitalism; Builders in Philadelphia, 1790-1850 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001), examines frequently over-leveraged master builders of row houses. Rilling has co-authored nominations to Philadelphia’s Register of Historic Sites, including the William and Letitia Still Underground Railroad Way Station, and the Smith-Whipper Abolitionist houses. She is also the author of the successful nomination of the African Friends to Harmony Burial Ground (41st and Chestnut St.) which once served the community she is exploring.
*Free to UCHS members, neighbors and friends - space is limited and RSVP is required.**
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