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SUMMARY:"Placing S. M. Swenson and Swedish-Texans in the Plantationocene\,"
  a public lecture by Dr. Lucia Hodgson of Uppsala University in Sweden
DESCRIPTION:This paper relocates the study of Swedes who migrated to Texas 
 in the nineteenth century from the familiar scholarly terrain of immigratio
 n to the Plantationocene. The Plantationocene is a conceptual analytic that
  allows us to see how plantations have been central to the transatlantic sl
 ave trade and American chattel slavery\, Indigenous dispossession and genoc
 ide\, racial capitalism\, and white heteropatriarchy. Placing S. M. Swenson
 \, the first known Swedish settler colonist in Texas\, and the hundreds of 
 Swedes who followed him in the Plantationocene focuses attention on how the
 y built their prosperity on Indigenous land appropriation and enslavement o
 f African-Americans. Drawing on archival materials held in the Briscoe Cent
 er for American History and the Swedish Emigrant Institute\, I argue that p
 lantation ownership and management enabled Swenson and other male Swedish-T
 exans to fashion identities as elite white Texans and Americans and to esta
 blish their own state and national belonging. In Swenson's correspondence\,
  we can see how he fashions himself as a citizen of the new country who can
  confidently tell its history and describe its geography\, agriculture\, in
 habitants and prospects from the position of one who unquestionably belongs
 . His correspondence\, I argue\, is written in the generic tradition of wha
 t Jennifer Greeson terms plantation literature which originated in the late
  sixteenth-century to attract potential investors and settlers to English c
 olonial projects in North America. These letters and travel narratives expl
 ained and justified plantation projects characterized by dispossession of I
 ndigenous land and enslavement of African people and thus preceded\, necess
 itated\, and instigated an Enlightenment discourse of individual property r
 ights and racial difference. The cultural history of Swenson and his fellow
  Swedes provides a case study for how the racial projects of slavery and di
 spossession came together in the plantation and through it consolidated whi
 te male identity in the Republic of Texas.https://drive.google.com/file/d/1
 DkbtY6ETKQ6EBm2jmjFgclF0EXjrhzF8/view?usp=drivesdk
LOCATION:Confer Hall Room 128
CATEGORIES:lecture
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 the-plantationocene-a-public-lecture-by-dr-lucia-hodgson-of-uppsala-univers
 ity-in-sweden
ORGANIZER;CN=Ursula Lindqvist:MAILTO:ulindqvi@gustavus.edu
CONTACT:Ursula Lindqvist\, ulindqvi@gustavus.edu\, 507-933-7422
CREATED:20250423T151935Z
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STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:7
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DTEND:20250424T013000Z
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