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I do look at the ways that other sites are trying to materialize the Haitian Revolution through

objects, things like maps and prints, what they do and don't engage with, and how they are perpetuating certain images.

And I think that's worth interrogating too.

What we don't see, what doesn't survive, and thinking about then how makers the way that they are grappling

materially with the Haitian Revolution and trying to broadcast certain views of it. Hello and welcome to episode 390 of Ben Franklin's world.

The podcast dedicated to helping you learn more about how the people and events of our early American past have shaped the present day world we live in.

And I'm your host, Liz Kovart.

When we think about the American Revolution, the French Revolution, or the Haitian Revolution, we think about the American Revolution, the French Revolution or the Haitian

revolution, we think about the ideas of freedom and equality. We think of those

ideals because all three revolutions discussed obtaining 18th century versions of those ideals.

What we don't always think about when we think about revolutions are the objects that inspired

came out of and were circulated by those revolutions.

Ashley White, an associate professor of history at the University of Miami in Florida,

joins us to investigate the revolutionary things that came out of the American, French, and Haitian revolutions and circulated around the Atlantic world.

Ashley is the author of the book Revolutionary Things, Material Culture and Politics in the late 18th century

Atlantic world.

Now during our exploration of revolutionary objects, Ashley reveals.

Information about the age of revolutions in the Atlantic world.

Connections between the American, French, and Haitian revolutions,

and what objects from these revolutions can teach us about the people and ideas who supported and protested them.

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