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Pepper Pot Stew and Black Female Street Peddlers in Antebellum Philadelphia (in person and virtual)
About this event
“A Single Spoonful will Excoriate the Mouth”:
Pepper Pot Stew and Black Female Street Peddlers in Antebellum Philadelphia
On Sunday, May 18th, Dr. Carolyn Zola will discuss the status and livelihoods of the Black women who prepared and sold Afro-Caribbean pepper pot stew and other foods in antebellum Philadelphia.
This meeting will be hosted at the 4th Floor Meeting Room at the Ann Arbor's Downtown Library branch or online on the YouTube channel of the Ann Arbor District Library.
Learn more here, and a link for the livestream will be available an hour before the event.
About Dr. Carolyn Zola
Dr. Carolyn Zola is a historian of gender, race, and labor. Her doctoral dissertation, Public Women: Urban Provisioners in Nineteenth Century America, focuses on women who sold food in northeastern port cities between the mid-18th and mid-19th Centuries to offer a radical rethinking of the familiar story of American economic and urban transformation. A recipient of Stanford University’s Centennial Teaching Assistant Award, Dr. Zola has received research support from the American Association of University Women, the Library Company of Philadelphia Program in Early American Economy and Society, the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research, and the Stanford Humanities Center. Born and raised in the Bay Area, she worked in theater, studied at City College of San Francisco, and earned her B.A. in History at U.C. Berkeley. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2024.
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