The Eclectic Convergence conference included talks from six entrepreneurs, business executives and venture capitalists, as well as a pitch competition.
The exhibit “Social Fabric: Land, Labor, and World the Textile Industry Created,” features people and places that supported the textile industry in the U.S. throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.
Derrick R. Spires, Edward Baptist, and Gerard Aching add their voices to a chorus of experts telling the story of how a man born into slavery around 1818 became an advocate for freedom for African Americans.