The role of slavery in the development of New England will be divided into six topical areas, each of which will be the focus of one or two days’ sessions: a) the American/Rhode Island slave trade; b) provisioning the West Indies; c) slavery in New England; d) gradual emancipation, racism, and abolitionism; e) antebellum New England and the “Slave Power”; and f) race and slavery in New England memory. The first three themes focus on the colonial period, the fourth and fifth on the post-Revolutionary and antebellum periods, and the last on the evolving memory of slavery and antislavery, and their racial legacies, to the present.

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