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Fire and Freedom: Food and Enslavement in Early America<\/strong>, a traveling exhibit from the National Library of Medicine, opens Monday, Jan. 6 and will be on view through Feb. 15 in Troy Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Atrium in the Marvin Library.<\/p>\n During the early Colonial era in the Chesapeake region of the United States, European settlers survived by relying upon indentured servants and slave labor for life-saving knowledge of farming and food acquisition. Europeans suffered poor nutrition and widespread illness caused by the lack of medical care. Despite their perilous position, colonists used human resources, the natural environment, and maritime trade to gain economic prosperity. But, it is through the labor of slaves, like those at George Washington\u2019s Mount Vernon, that we can learn about the ways that meals transcend taste and nutrition.<\/p>\n Please join us for additional programming including a special\u00a0Voices Lecture!<\/p>\n Fire and Freedom:\u00a0Looking at the Exhibit through New York Eyes
\n<\/em><\/strong>In the traveling exhibit Fire and Freedom: Food and Enslavement in Early America, George Washington\u2019s plantation, Mount Vernon, serves as a lens into the world of food and enslavement in colonial Virginia. Culinary historian Lavada Nahon compares the depiction of Mount Vernon with the unique food culture of colonial New York.<\/p>\n