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Conference on Fugitives and Maroons, Dec. 6-7
| Location: | Connecticut, United States |
| Conference Date: | 2002-12-06 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2002-10-30 |
| Announcement ID: |
131740 |
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The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale Center for International and Area Studies, presents its Fourth International Conference:
Unshackled Spaces: Fugitives from Slavery and Maroon Communities in the Americas
December 6-7, 2002
Henry R Luce Hall, Yale University, 34 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven CT
Session 1: Marronage and Flight: An Overview
Richard Price, College of William and Mary
Loren Schweninger, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Comment: Sylvia Frey, Tulane University
Session 2: Barbados and Brazil
Jerome Handler, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
Stuart Schwartz, Yale University
Comment: David Barry Gaspar, Duke University
Session 3: Maroon Rituals—The Junction of Africa and America
Pearl Duncan, Author and Jamaican Maroon Descendant
Session 4: Black Seminoles and Texas Runaways
Kevin Mulroy, University of Southern California
Barbara Krauthamer, New York University
Comment: Paul Finkelman, University of Tulsa College of Law
Session 5: The Fugitive Slave Act in Principle and Practice
Jane Williamson, Rokeby Museum, Vermont
William Freehling, University of Kentucky
Comment: John Stauffer, Harvard University
Conference details are subject to change. For more information and registration form, see our website or contact Yale University Conference Services by mail, phone (203-432-0465), or email (confserv@yale.edu).
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