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And the Rest Is History: A Conversation with Anthropologist Sidney Mintz

Sidney Mintz was a professor of anthropology at Johns Hopkins University who wrote about slavery, labor, markets, and food books such as Worker in the Cane (1960), Sweetness and Power (1985) and Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom (1996). This interview was conducted by Dr. Jonathan Thomas, and anthropologist and former student, in 2013 at Mintz’s home in Cockeysville, Maryland.

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