Join Laini Farrare for a special virtual lecture that explores early American luxury and Black labor on Long Island through the history behind two chairs now in Preservation Long Island’s collection.
Luxury in Sag Harbor: Mahogany Furniture and Black Labor in the Late Atlantic World
Date: Thursday, June 13, 2024
Time: 5:30 to 6:30 PM
Where: Online via Zoom
Cost: Free
Laini Farrare is an independent scholar and recent graduate of the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture. Drawing from her master’s thesis, “Blowin’ in the Wind: The Hidden Hands of Long Island,” Farrare will discuss how early America relied on Black craftsmanship and labor to show wealth and status. Her talk is centered around a pair of mahogany Windsor chairs made in 1794 for Sag Harbor resident and enslaver, Captain William Johnson Rysam, by Nathaniel Dominy V.
