Schedule

PLEASE NOTE THIS SCHEDULE WAS UPDATED ON OCTOBER 4, 2022

Friday, October 7

1:30 – 3:15 p.m. | Introductory Remarks & Keynote “Conversation”
Location: 211 Dickinson Hall & Zoom Webinar

3:15 – 3:30 p.m. | Break
Location: 210 Dickinson Hall

3:30 – 5:15 p.m. | Panel 1 | The Antislavery Struggle
Location: 211 Dickinson Hall & Zoom Webinar

  • Chris Bonner, University of Maryland | “Moses Grandy’s Pursuits of Freedom”
  • Sean Griffin, Manhattan College | “Antislavery Struggle, Labor Struggle: Recovering Lost Connections and Missed Opportunities in the Labor-Abolitionist Coalition”
  • Kate Masur, Northwestern University | “Poor Laws and Black Codes: Problems of Race, Class, and Mobility in the 19th Century United States”
  • Comment: Matthew Karp, Princeton University

Saturday, October 8

9 – 10:45 a.m. | Panel 2 | Antislavery & Democracy
Location: 211 Dickinson Hall & Zoom Webinar

  • Sarah Gronningsater, University of Pennsylvania | “Gradual Abolition in Practice: Law, Experience, and the Local Archive”
  • Ariel Ron, Southern Methodist University | “The Republicans’ Grassroots Leviathan”
  • Alex Gourevitch, Brown University | “Servitude and Self-Emancipation After Slavery”
  • Comment: Anton Jäger, KU Leuven

10:45 – 11 a.m. | Break
Location: 210 Dickinson Hall

11 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Panel 3 | Antislavery & Capitalism
Location: 211 Dickinson Hall & Zoom Webinar

  • John Clegg, Harvard University | “The Real Wages of Whiteness: Fear of Slave Competition in the Abolitionist Imagination”
  • Elizabeth Herbin-Triant, Amherst College | “Volunteers in the Cause of Freedom: Fugitive Slaves, Black Barbers, and the Antislavery Crusade in Lowell”
  • Comment: Wendy Warren, Princeton University

12:15 – 1:30 p.m. | Lunch
Location: 210 Dickinson Hall

1:30 – 2:45 p.m. | Panel 4 | Antislavery & Violence
Location: 211 Dickinson Hall & Zoom Webinar

  • Yesenia Barragan, Rutgers University | “Free Womb Captives and Slavery’s Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Colombia and Spanish South America”
  • Isadora Moura Mota, Princeton University | “Radicalizing Atlantic Antislavery: Insurgent Abolitionism in Nineteenth-Century Brazil”
  • Comment: Corinna Zeltsman, Princeton University

2:45 – 3:15 p.m. | Break
Location: 210 Dickinson Hall

3:15 – 4:30 p.m. | Panel 5 | Antislavery & Revolution
Location: 211 Dickinson Hall & Zoom Webinar

  • Lenora Warren, Cornell University | “Insurrection and the Oceanic Imaginary”
  • Angela Zimmerman, George Washington University | “Conjure and Colonization: Fighting the Empire of ‘Lincoln and them other big emancipator men’”
  • Comment: Reena Goldthree, Princeton University

4:30 – 5 p.m. | Closing Remarks & Conversation
Location: 211 Dickinson Hall & Zoom Webinar

Moderated by Matthew Karp and Peter Wirzbicki

5 p.m. | Conference Concludes