2019: The Construction of Racial Slavery in the Atlantic World

All Friday sessions will be held in the Honors College 311, except the Keynote Address which is at Barnard Observatory 105. All Saturday sessions will be held in the Lyceum 200.

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Schedule
2019
Friday, March 29th
8:30 AM

Opening Remarks/Introductions

Conference Organizers

Honors College 311

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

9:00 AM

From Africans to Americans: African Settlers and Slaves in 16th Century Spanish America

Erika Edwards, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Honors College 311

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM

9:45 AM

The Unbridled Greed of the Conquistadors: The Real Provisión of 1530 and the Legality of Native Enslavement in the Southern Caribbean

Rebecca Anne Goetz, New York University

Honors College 311

9:45 AM - 10:30 AM

10:45 AM

Valuing Early Modern Slavery: Settlement, Servitude, and the Development of Race Governance

Sherwin K. Bryant, Northwestern University

Honors College 311

10:45 AM - 11:30 AM

11:30 AM

Free Black Vecinos of Late Sixteenth-Century New Spain: Catholicism, Subjecthood, and Interconnected Histories

Chloe Ireton, University College London

Honors College 311

11:30 AM - 12:15 PM

1:45 PM

The Wife, the Whore, and the Wench: Colonial Women and the Development of Racial Hierarchy in 17th Century Barbados

Jenny Shaw, University of Alabama

Honors College 311

1:45 PM - 2:30 PM

2:30 PM

Ran Away From The Subscriber: Runaway Servants and Virginia’s Culture of Surveillance

Allison Madar, University of Oregon

Honors College 311

2:30 PM - 3:15 PM

3:30 PM

Reading Race and Framing Susceptibility in the American Atlantic

Rana Hogarth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Honors College 311

3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

5:30 PM

Sheathed in your Own Bowels: Monarchy & Slavery after the Restoration

Holly Brewer, University of Maryland, College Park

Barnard Observatory 105

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Saturday, March 30th
8:30 AM

First Enslavements and First Emancipations: Slavery and Capitalism in Early Colonial Virginia, 1547-1660

John Blanton, City College of New York

Lyceum 200

8:30 AM - 9:15 AM

9:15 AM

The Consolidation of Slave Law in England’s Greater Caribbean: Jamaica and South Carolina

Edward B. Rugemer, Yale University

Lyceum 200

9:15 AM - 10:00 AM

10:15 AM

African Slave Trade Monopolies and the Suppression of Native Slavery in the Americas

Brett Rushforth, University of Oregon

Lyceum 200

10:15 AM - 11:00 AM

11:00 AM

Cockacoeske’s Dilemma: Slavery and Sovereignty in the Early American South

Hayley Negrin, University of Illinois at Chicago

Lyceum 200

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM

1:45 PM

Warfare, Imperial Competition, and Serial Displacement in the SeventeenthCentury Caribbean

Casey Schmitt, The McNeil Center for Early American Studies

Lyceum 200

1:45 PM - 2:30 PM

2:30 PM

From Creole to African in the Ceded Islands: Experiencing Transformations in Slavery after the Seven Years’ War

Tessa Murphy, Syracuse University

Lyceum 200

2:30 PM - 3:15 PM

3:30 PM

A Secret Among The Blacks, Of Which The Whites Know Nothing: The Political Vision Of Enslaved West Africans In 1750s Saint-Domingue

John Garrigus, University of Texas at Arlington

Lyceum 200

3:30 PM - 4:15 PM

4:15 PM

Black Loyalists in Sierra Leone and Black Royalism in the Revolutionary Atlantic

James Sidbury, Rice University

Lyceum 200

4:15 PM - 5:00 PM