Seth Goldstein, Atlantic Black Box

“My West Indies visualization project helped me distill my thinking on the topic of Maine’s involvement in slave based Atlantic World capitalism and will serve as a great outline for my forthcoming book on topic of Maine and the West Indies trade.”

“I was very impressed with the advisory group that PMA assembled and was encouraged by the organization’s attempt to bring in a range of voices as part of the gallery reinterpretations,” shares Seth Goldstein of Atlantic Black Box Project. “Regarding my own work as a historian and museum director, I think the PMA’s reinterpretation could serve as an example to other museums around the region with how to grapple with inclusion of a greater representational perspective when it comes to history and culture.”

Passages in American Art touches on several themes of Seth Goldstein’s research interests, including the historic North Atlantic fishery, global piracy, New England shipwrecks and lighthouses, and the trans-Atlantic slave trade. He is a member of the Atlantic Black Box Project; a grass roots non-profit that examines Maine and New England’s marginalized history and the regions complicity with the economics of enslavement.