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MAY 21st
8.15AM-9.00AM: REGISTRATION
9.00AM-9.15AM: WELCOME ADDRESS
9.15AM - 10.45AM PANEL 1
Slaves with Non-traditional Owners
Chair: Catherine Armstrong (Loughborough
University)
Erin Greenwald (The Historic New Orleans
Collection)
‘‘Sailors, Healers, and Executioners: Company-Owned
Slaves in the Louisiana Colony’’
Amy Johnson (Elon University)
‘‘Bondage and Freedom Among the Maroons of
Jamaica’’
Tim Lockley (University of Warwick)
‘‘Differential Mortality and the recruitment of slaves to
serve in the British West India Regiments’’
10.45AM-11.15AM: COFFEE BREAK
11.15AM - 12.15PM PANEL 2
In Quest of Freedom
Chair: Lydia Plath (Canterbury Christ Church
University)
Thomas Mareite (Sciences Po Paris)
“A micro-historical perspective on slavery in the region
of Coquimbo through the prism of judicial archives: the
Gallardo case (Chile, 1800-1808)”
Claudine Raynaud (University Paul Valéry Montpellier)
“Narrative of Sojourner Truth: Slavery in New York
State in the 1800”
FRIDAY
MAY 22nd
3.15PM - 4.15PM PANEL 3
Precarious lives
Slavery and Geography
Chair: Lawrence Aje (University Paul-Valery,
Montpellier)
Chair: Judith Misrahi-Barak (University Paul-Valery,
Montpellier)
Emily, West (University of Reading)
“Nominal Slavery, Free People of Colour, and
Enslavement Requests: Slavery and Freedom at the
‘edges’ of the regime”
Catherine Armstrong (Loughborough University)
“Frederick Law Olmsted and the Cultural Geography of
Southern Slave Autonomy”
Sandy, Laura (Keele University)
“Stolen Lives and Stolen Labour: An Investigation into
the Forgotten Phenomenon of Slave Stealing in the
American South”
4.15PM-4.30PM: COFFEE BREAK
4.30PM - 5.30PM PANEL 4
Slavery in the family
Chair: Herbert S. Klein (Columbia University)
Sueann, Caulfield (University of Michigan)
“Jesus v. Jesus: Slavery, Patronage Networks, and the
Transfer of Wealth in a Nineteenth-Century AfricanBahian Family”
Lauren Brown (Occidental College)
“Between Relation and Resistance: Blurred Family
Lines on a 19th Century Martinican Plantation”
5.30PM-5.40PM: COFFEE BREAK
5.40PM-6.45PM ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
“Looking for Non-conventional Social
Configurations in Colonial Slave Societies”
Chair: Jean Hébrard (University of Michigan / EHESS)
12.15PM-1.45PM: LUNCH
1.45PM - 3.00PM KEYNOTE SPEAKER (1)
Ana Maria Silva (University of Michigan)
Richard Reinhardt (University of Michigan)
Angela Perez-Villa (University of Michigan)
Amanda Reid (University of Michigan)
Jacques de Cauna (CNRS/EHESS CIRESC)
“The Many Faces of Toussaint Louverture: Old
Mysteries, New Discoveries”
6.45PM - 7.45PM: COCKTAIL
3.00PM-3.15PM: COFFEE BREAK
9.00AM- 11.00AM PANEL 5
7.45PM: CONFERENCE DINNER
AT “Le Chat Perché”
Lucia Bergamasco (University of Orléans)
“The Many Peculiar Faces of Slavery in the Border
States”
Tony Perry (University of Maryland)
“In Bondage When Cold Was King: The Frigid Terrain
of Slavery in Antebellum Maryland”
Marina Muaze (Universidade Federal do Estado do
Rio de Janeiro)
“Many Faces of the Domestic Slavery: Paraiba Valley
and Mississippi Valley in a comparative perspective
(1820-1860)”
2.00PM - 3.30PM PANEL 6
Image and Agency
Chair: Anne Urbanowski (University Paul-Valery,
Montpellier)
Elizabeth Kuebler-Wolf (University of Saint Francis)
“Gilbert Hunt, a Case Study in Slave Social Mobility”
Natalie Zacek (University of Manchester)
“‘Famous for his knowledge of the West India
Negro-English’: Samuel Augustus Mathews’s Racial
Masquerades”
Chloe Faux (EHESS)
“‘Ain’t I a human?’ or, X-ray (re)-visions of the self”
3.30PM - 4.00PM: COFFEE BREAK
4.00PM - 6.00PM PANEL 7
Slave Resistance
11.00AM - 11.30AM: COFFEE BREAK
11.30AM - 12.45PM KEYNOTE SPEAKER (2)
Herbert S. Klein (Columbia University)
“Comparing Slave Societies in the Americas:
the Current State of the Question”
12.45PM - 2.00PM: LUNCH
Chair: Tim Lockley (University of Warwick)
Shaun Wallace (University of Stirling)
“‘The Myth of Drapetomania and the Realities of Slave
Fugitivity’: The Slave Runaways of the US South during
the Early Republic Period”
Nikita Harwich (Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre-La
Défense)
“Turmoil in the Cocoa Groves : slave revolts in Ocumare
de la Costa (Venezuela): 1837 and 1845”
Tanya Mears (Worcester State University)
“Fortune: Executed for Arson”
Jennifer Stinson (Saginaw Valley State
University)
“Black Slaves, Black Indentured Servants, and Indian
Women Miners: Making Race, Resisting Bondage, and
Americanizing the Midwest”
6.00PM-6.15PM CLOSING REMARKS