2016/2017

Antislavery Sentiments and Experiences of African-Canadians During the Civil War Era

Wednesday, September 14th, 2016 - Mathias Rodorff, University of Munich

 

‘Lord Until I Reach My Home’: Inside the Refugee Camps of the American Civil War

Wednesday, September 28th, 2016 - Abigail Cooper, Brandeis University

 

Fair Trade Freedom: The Moral Economy of Low Wage Women’s Work in the Global Anti-Trafficking Movement

Wednesday, October 12th, 2016 - Elena Shih, Brown University

 

Defining Postemancipation: Jamaica and the British Empire after the Morant Bay Rebellion

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016 - Christienna Fryar, SUNY Buffalo State

 

Strange Amalgamation and General Confusion’: Party Realignment as Racial Realignment in the Civil War Era

Wednesday, November 16th, 2016 - Josh Lynn, Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions

 

Antislavery Sentiments and Other Socio-Racial Sensibilities in the Spanish Atlantic, 1780-1854

Wednesday, December 7th, 2016 - Alejandro E. Gómez, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris

 

Flowers, Ballots, and Bullets: the Brazilian Abolitionist Movement

Wednesday, January 25th, 2017 - Angela Alonso,  University of São Paulo, Brazil

 

The Wickedest City in America: Sex, Race, and Organized Crime in the Jim Crow South

Wednesday, February 8th, 2017 - Tammy Ingram, College of Charleston

 

Follow the North Star to Canada’: Draft Resisters and the Underground Railroad, 1968-1976

Wednesday, February 15th, 2017 - Wendell Adjetey, Yale University

 

Enslaved Girlhoods: Gendering Terror, Human Trafficking, and Human Security

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2017 - Wendy Hesford, Ohio State University

 

Race, Migration, and Removal in the Early United States Republic

Wednesday, March 29th, 2017 - Samantha Seeley, Univ. of Richmond

 

The Pirates, the Judge, and the Amistad Trial; or How the Panda Slavers May Have Determined the Fate of the Amistad Africans

Wednesday, April 12th, 2017 - Manuel Barcia, University of Leeds

 

Reconstruction in the World: Race, Empire & the Diplomatic Mission in the Post-Civil War Era

Wednesday, April 26th, 2017 - Erik Mathisen, Queen Mary University of London