Free Labour? Women and work in slave and post-slave societies

9.15-9.45 Registration and coffee

9.45-10.00 Welcome: David Richardson, Director of WISE

10.00-11.00 Panel one - legal perspectives Chair: Joel Quirk Andrea Nicholson, Nottingham Law School: ‘Can the law protect women from slavery and slavery-like practices?’ Katarzyna Gromek-Broc, York Law School: ‘Less equal than others: the position of women in the UK labour market’

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-1.00 Panel two - historical perspectives Chair: Nicholas Evans Gemma Romain, University of Newcastle: ‘Petitioning, protest, and women’s labour in Grenada during the Apprenticeship Period’ Henrice Altink, University of York: ‘“Because of my sex or any other reason for which I am not responsible”: the freedom of labour in post-emancipation Jamaica’ Deborah Oxley, All Souls’ College, University of Oxford: ‘Women and work in the Imperial Prison’

1.00-2.00 Lunch

2.00-2.30 Women’s Committee open meeting

2.30-3.30 Keynote Chair: Simon D. Smith Suzanne Schwarz, Liverpool Hope University: ‘Identity and encounter: the role of women in Sierra Leone in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries’

3.30-4.00 Coffee

4.00-5.30 Roundtable - WISE perspectives Chair: Judith Spicksley Simon D. Smith, WISE, and Martin Forster, University of York: ‘Surviving slavery: mortality at Mesopotamia, a Jamaican sugar estate, 1762-1832’ Nicholas Evans, WISE: ‘Responses to the white slave trade in Britain, 1885-1939’ Kate Hodgson, WISE: ‘Twin ocean travellers and late-eighteenth century European abolitionism’ 5.30 Workshop ends

BOOKING DETAILS

Workshop fees, inclusive of all refreshments: £25 non-members; £20 members of the Economic History Society; £15 unwaged. Ten free places are available for postgraduate students on a first come first served basis; please provide evidence of status with your booking form.

To book, please complete and return the slip below to: Judith Spicksley, WISE, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street, Hull, HU1 1NE, enclosing your cheque made out to the University of Hull, and proof of status if required. If you would like hotel or travel information or further details about the workshop, please contact Sarah Carter (Sarah.Carter@hull.ac.uk) or Judith Spicksley (J.Spicksley@hull.ac.uk)

For a list of abstracts, please visit http://www.ehs.org.uk/society/women.asp

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BOOKING FORM FOR THE 20TH ANNUAL WOMEN’S COMMITTEE WORKSHOP AT WISE

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Please return to: Sarah Carter, WISE, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street, Hull, HU1 1NE, by Monday, 2 November 2009.