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The Antislavery Moment: Capitalism, Democracy, and Abolition in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Princeton University
This conference will feature prominent scholars who work on abolition, anti-slavery politics, capitalism, and slavery, and will attempt to revisit the classic questions about the relationship between the marketplace and abolition in light of the new historiographical trends.
This conference is organized by Professor Matthew Karp, Professor Peter Wrizbicki and the Center for Collaboration History at Princeton University.
Friday, October 7
1:30 – 3:15 p.m.
Introductory Remarks; Peter Wirzbicki, Princeton University
Keynote “Conversation”
James Oakes, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Manisha Sinha, University of Connecticut
Amy Dru Stanley, University of Chicago
Moderator: Sean Wilentz, Princeton University
3:30 – 5:15 p.m. | Panel 1 | The Antislavery Struggle
Chris Bonner, University of Maryland | “Moses Grandy’s Pursuits of Freedom”
Sean Griffin, Manhattan College | “Antislavery Struggle, Labor Struggle: Recovering Lost Connections and Missed Opportunities in the Labor-Abolitionist Coalition”
Kate Masur, Northwestern University | “Poor Laws and Black Codes: Problems of Race, Class, and Mobility in the 19th Century United States”
Comment: Matthew Karp, Princeton University
Saturday, October 8
9 – 10:45 a.m. | Panel 2 | Antislavery & Democracy
Sarah Gronningsater, University of Pennsylvania | “Gradual Abolition in Practice: Law, Experience, and the Local Archive”
Ariel Ron, Southern Methodist University | “The Republicans’ Grassroots Leviathan”
Alex Gourevitch, Brown University | “Servitude and Self-Emancipation After Slavery”
Comment: Anton Jäger, KU Leuven
11 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Panel 3 | Antislavery & Capitalism
Yesenia Barragan, Rutgers University | “Free Womb Captives and Slavery’s Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Colombia and Spanish South America”
John Clegg, Harvard University | “The Real Wages of Whiteness: Fear of Slave Competition in the Abolitionist Imagination”
Comment: Wendy Warren, Princeton University
1:15 – 2:30 p.m. | Panel 4 | Antislavery & Violence
Kellie Carter Jackson, Wellesley College | “Forcing Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence”
Isadora Moura Mota, Princeton University | “Radicalizing Atlantic Antislavery: Insurgent Abolitionism in Nineteenth-Century Brazil”
Comment: Corinna Zeltsman, Princeton University
2:45 – 4 p.m. | Panel 5 | Antislavery & Revolution
Lenora Warren, Cornell University | “Insurrection and the Oceanic Imaginary”
Angela Zimmerman, George Washington University | “Conjure and Colonization: Fighting the Empire of ‘Lincoln and them other big emancipator men’”
Comment: Reena Goldthree, Princeton University
4 – 5 p.m. | Closing Remarks & Conversation
Moderated by Matthew Karp and Peter Wirzbicki
