Atlantic Emancipations - 10-12 April 2008, Philadelphia
| Location: McNeil Center for Early American Studies, 3355 Woodland Walk (34th and Sansom Streets) |
5:00 PM | Opening Session: Atlantic Emancipations: A Forum Chair: Christopher Brown, Columbia University Panelists: Richard Blackett, Vanderbilt University Laurent Dubois, Duke University Manisha Sinha, University of Massachusetts |
| 6:15 PM | Reception |
| Location: The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1314 Locust Street | 8:00 AM | Registration and Coffee |
| 8:30 AM | Circulating Abolitionism in the Atlantic World Chair: Carla L. Peterson, University of Maryland "Thomas Clarkson's History of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade: The Trans-Atlantic Biography of an Anti-Slavery Classic": Dee Andrews, California State University, East Bay Emma Lapsansky-Werner, Haverford College Toussaint, Gabriel, and Three Finger’d Jack: “Courageous Chiefs” and the “Sacred Standard of Liberty” on the Atlantic Stage Jenna Gibbs, University of California, Los Angeles Abolition from Afar: A Freemason’s Struggle for Brazilian Emancipation through Print Neil Safier, University of British Columbia Commentary: Marixa Lasso, Case Western Reserve University |
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| 10:00 AM | Coffee Break | |
| 10:15 AM | Emancipation and Its Cultural Productions Chair: David Waldstreicher, Temple University “When All Shall Be Free . . . Anything Short of this . . .”: James Hutton Brew, The Gold Coast Times, and African Agency in Abolition in the Gold Coast (Colonial Ghana) Kabena Akurang-Parry, Shippensburg University Violent Places: Travel, Reform and Revolution in William Wells Brown’s Three Years in Europe Martha Schoolman, Miami University The Slave Poet Juan Francisco Manzano Marilyn G. Miller, Tulane University Commentary: James W. Cook, University of Michigan |
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| 11:45 AM | Lunch (on your own) | |
| 1:15 PM | Emancipation and Emigration Chair: Elizabeth Varon, Temple University “Emancipated for the Purpose of Emigrating”: Gender Conventions and the Global Dimensions of Manumission in the Chesapeake and Liberia Jessica Millward, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Emancipation’s Diaspora: The Pursuit of Freedom and Citizenship in the Post-Bellum North Leslie Schwalm, University of Iowa “And the condition of the free negroes in Nova Scotia will fully substantiate this assertion”: Anglo-American Travellers and the Mighty Experiment Jeffrey L. McNairn, Queen's University Commentary: Mia Bay, Rutgers University |
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| 3:00 PM | Break | |
| 3:15 PM | Maroons, Rebels, and Manumission Chair: Tukufu Zuberi, University of Pennsylvania Rebellion, Civil War and Revolution in Dutch Berbice, 1763-1764 Marjoleine Kars, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Maritime Marronage and Manumission in Caribbean Inter-Imperial Trade Linda M. Rupert, University of North Carolina, Greensboro Citizens, Brigands, and Slaves: St. Lucia in the Age of Revolution Jane I. Seiter, University of Bristol Commentary: Philip Morgan, Johns Hopkins University |
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| 4:45 PM | Break | |
| 5:00 PM | Keynote Address Chair: Joanne Pope Melish, University of Kentucky Maroons and the Emancipation Process in the United States Steven Hahn, University of Pennsylvania |
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| 6:30 PM | Reception |
| Location: The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1314 Locust Street | 8:30 AM | Coffee and Registration |
| 9:00 AM | War and Emancipation Chair: Peter Kolchin, University of Delaware The British Empire’s “Sable Arm”: Black Soldiers and Rebels in the Seven Years’ War and Postwar Antislavery Maria Alessandra Bollettino, University of Texas Slave Soldiers and Emancipation in the Rio de la Plata, 1807-1852 Seth Meisel, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater Self-Emancipation in the Atlantic, 1772-1783 Charles R. Foy, Eastern Illinois University Commentary: Douglas Egerton, Le Moyne College |
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| 10:30 AM | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 AM | Emancipation as Lived Experience Chair: Allison Dorsey, Swarthmore College “An African woman . . . ‘industrious,but turbulent’”: Racial/Ethnic Classification and Social Control among Free African Laborers in the Abolition-Era British Caribbean Rosanne Adderley, Vanderbilt University The Case of Jean Baptiste, Créole de Saint-Domingue: Law and Slavery in the Currents of the Atlantic World Martha S. Jones, University of Michigan Pronatalism, Amelioration and Emancipation in the Anglophone Caribbean Diana Paton, Newcastle University Commentary: Gad Heuman, University of Warwick |
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| 12:30 PM | Lunch (on your own) | |
| 2:00 PM | The Politics of Emancipation Chair: James Brewer Stewart, Macalester College Remembering Dinah Nevil and the Local Origins of American Antislavery Kirsten Sword, Indiana University The Failure of Compensated Emancipation and Slave Reparations in the United States in a Comparative Context Roy Finkenbine, University of Detroit Mercy Discrediting Democracy: Liberal Exclusion and the Question of Race in the Post-Emancipation U.S. Kate Masur, Northwestern University Spectacles of Freedom: Symbolic Abolitionism, Liberal Rhetoric, and the Mobilization of Free Blacks in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Colombia Jason McGraw, Indiana University Commentary: Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, Fordham University |
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| 3:45 PM | Break | |
| 4:00 PM | Closing Session: Atlantic Emancipations: Reflections, Reactions, Revisions Chair: Richard Newman, Rochester Institute of Technology Panelists: Gary B. Nash, University of California, Los Angeles Sue Peabody, Washington State University Vancouver Cassandra Pybus, University of Sydney |