Gilder Lehrman Center Conferences

Gilder Lehrman Center Conferences

Past Conferences:

• Indigenous Enslavement and Incarceration in North American History (2013)
• Abolition, Past and Present: Scholars, Activists, and the Challenge of Contemporary Slavery (2012)
• Beyond Freedom: New Directions in the Study of Emancipation (2011)
• American Counterpoint: New Approaches to Slavery and Abolition in Brazil (2010)
• John Brown, Slavery, and the Legacies of Revolutionary Violence in Our Own Time: A Conference Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Harpers Ferry Raid (2009)
• Slavery and the Slave Trades in the Indian Ocean and Arab Worlds: Global Connections and Disconnections (2008)
• The Legacies of Slavery and Emancipation: Jamaica in the Atlantic World (2007)
• Slavery & Public History: An International Symposium (2006)
• Repairing the Past: Confronting the Legacies of Slavery, Genocide, & Caste (2005)
• From Chattel Slavery to State Servitude (2004)
• Collective Degradation: Slavery and the Construction of Race (2003)
• Unshackled Spaces: Fugitives from Slavery and Maroon Communities in the Americas (2002) View Conference Papers
• Yale, New Haven, and American Slavery (2002) Keynote Speech, David W. Blight: “If You Don’t Tell it Like it Was, it Can Never Be As it Ought to Be”
• Sisterhood and Slavery: Transatlantic Antislavery and Women’s Rights (2001) View Conference Papers
• The Arming of Slaves from the Ancient World to the American Civil War (2000)
• Domestic Passages: Internal Slave Trades in the Americas, 1808-1888 (1999)