Support for Ben Franklin's world comes from the

Omaha Institute of Early American History and Culture.

The Omaha Institute supports all types of historical scholarship,

including digital scholarship.

In 2014, Molly Worsch, an assistant professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh,

wanted to incorporate Sound into her William and Mary Quarterly article,

because Sound would help her make a powerful point, a point that would help her make a powerful point,

a point that would help her bring alive the 16th century for her readers.

She approached the OI with her desire,

and Institute staff helped her find a way to connect her audio file with her written article.

The piece is about the way that residents of the parole fisheries on the Venezuelan coast

learned how to think about their regional political economy.

That oyster reefs were actually living places populated by living creatures

and that they had to pay attention to the relationship between the waters that they moved

through the species that populated them,

the exploitation of the laborers who dived for oysters,

and that all of this resulted in a very unique approach

to managing the natural and human resources of that particular area.

I saw residents saying, our enslaved divers listen for the noise that the oysters make

underneath the waves.

This is a noise that sounds like hogs rooting for acorns.

And that was the line that when I first started reading these documents, I just thought,

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