2019: The Construction of Racial Slavery in the Atlantic World

Opening Remarks/Introductions

Conference Organizers

Honors College 311

8:30 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

James Sidbury, Rice University

Lyceum 200

4:15 PM - 5:00 PM