Silk

Down the Silk Route We Go

Sarah Green // AMH 4110.0M01 – Colonial America, 1607-1763 For most, silks are a fabric associated with the finer things. Silk is a rich, luxury fabric by today’s standards but what about in eighteenth-century America? Silk was as favored back then as it is now. While examining ledger pages from the Glassford and Henderson Colchester […]

Colonial America’s Complicated Economy

Kayla Davis // AMH 4110.0M01 – Colonial America, 1607-1763 When reading about colonial life in the British colonies during the mid-eighteenth century, it is easy to think of their consumer habits as idyllic or self-reliant, as we often reference the homespun movement preceding the American Revolution.[1] Beginning in 1765, after the implementation of the Townshend Acts, this […]

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Down the Silk Route We Go

Colonial America’s Complicated Economy