Panel 4: Freedom Seekers and Emancipation
Presentation Type
Event
Location
Butler Auditorium
Start Date
17-10-2025 2:30 PM
End Date
17-10-2025 4:00 PM
Description
Panel 4: Freedom Seekers and Emancipation
Presenters:
- Kelly Houston Jones, Arkansas Tech University. “We the Undersigned”: White Petitions for Compensation in the Killings of Enslaved People
- Natalie Joy, Northern Illinois University. Notaries and the Creation of U.S. Citizenship in the 19th Century
- Laura Nelson, Princeton University. Inscribing Freedom: Documentation as Legal Strategy in Antebellum Philadelphia’s Antislavery Activism
- Evan Turiano, Trinity College. Freedom Seekers and Constitutional Crisis in the Secession Winter
Relational Format
conference proceeding
Recommended Citation
Jones, Kelly Houston; Joy, Natalie; Nelson, Laura; and Turiano, Evan, "Panel 4: Freedom Seekers and Emancipation" (2025). Conference on the Civil War. 6.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/civilwar_conference/2025/schedule/6
COinS
Oct 17th, 2:30 PM
Oct 17th, 4:00 PM
Panel 4: Freedom Seekers and Emancipation
Butler Auditorium
Panel 4: Freedom Seekers and Emancipation
Presenters:
- Kelly Houston Jones, Arkansas Tech University. “We the Undersigned”: White Petitions for Compensation in the Killings of Enslaved People
- Natalie Joy, Northern Illinois University. Notaries and the Creation of U.S. Citizenship in the 19th Century
- Laura Nelson, Princeton University. Inscribing Freedom: Documentation as Legal Strategy in Antebellum Philadelphia’s Antislavery Activism
- Evan Turiano, Trinity College. Freedom Seekers and Constitutional Crisis in the Secession Winter
