MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition

2000 Schedule

The Arming of Slaves from the Ancient World to the American Civil War

November 16-18, 2000
Yale University and Omni Hotel, New Haven

Keynote Address, by Prof. David Brion Davis

Program

Thursday, November 16

3:30 - 5:00 Registration
5:00 - 7:00 Reception
8:15 - 9:00 Keynote Address
  • David Brion Davis, Director, Gilder Lehrman Center and Professor of History, Yale University

Friday, November 17

8:00 - 9:00 Continental breakfast and Registration
9:00 - 11:00 Session 1: The Arming of Slaves in Classical and Islamic Societies
  • Thomas Wiedemann, Director, International Centre for the History of Slavery and Professor of History, Nottingham University
    “The Slave As Non-Citizen: The Classical and Late Antique Worlds”
  • Daniel Pipes, Editor, Middle East Quarterly
    “Slave Soldiers and Islam”
  • Comment: Donald Kagan, Yale University
12:00 Independent Lunch
2:00 - 4:00 Session 2: The Arming of Slaves in the Carribean
  • David Geggus, University of Florida
    “The Arming of Slaves in the Haitian Revolution”
  • Laurent Dubois, University of Michigan
    “Citizen-Soldiers: Emancipation and Military Service in the Revolutionary French Caribbean”
  • Comment: Jerome S. Handler, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
4:00 Coffee Break
4:30 - 6:30 Session 3: Slavery and Defense in Colonial Borderlands
  • Jennifer Baszile, Yale University
    “Armed Slaves and Colonial Crisis: Indian Wars in Colonial Southeastern North America”
  • Peter Voelz, Eastern Illinois University
    “Armed Slaves Below the Border”
  • Comment: Jane Landers, Vanderbilt University
7:00 Dinner

Saturday, November 18

8:00 - 9:00 Continental breakfast
9:00 - 11:00 Session 4: Military Uses of Slaves in New World Revolutions
  • Robert Olwell, History Department, University of Texas
    “Portrait of the Slave Master as Revolutionary: White Liberty, Black Slavery, and Military Service in South Carolina, 1775 - 1783”
  • Philip Morgan, College of William and Mary and Co-Winner, 1999 Frederick Douglass Book Prize
    “The Arming of Slaves in the American Revolution”
  • Comment: Andrew O’Shaughnessy, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
11:00 Lunch
1:00 - 3:00 Session 5: The American Civil War
  • Leslie Rowland, Director, Freedmen and Southern Society Project, University of Maryland
    “The Recruitment and Service of Slaves in the Union Army”
  • Frank Deserino, University of London
    “The Notion of Black Loyalty Under Fire: An Analysis of Black Confederate Pensions”
  • Comment: Catherine Clinton, Baruch College
3:00 Coffee Break
3:30 Summation
  • David Brion Davis, Director, Gilder Lehrman Center and Professor of History, Yale University
7:00 Pre-booked conference dinner at Caff� Adulis.