2004 Papers

Keynote Address

• Suzanne Miers, Professor Emerita, Ohio University ” Freedom is a Good Thing but it Means a Dearth of Slaves: Twentieth Century Solutions to the Abolition of Slavery”

Slave Labor in Totalitarian Regimes

• Michael Allen, University of Connecticut “Seeing Like a State with Cataracts: Slavery and Political Religion”
• David J. Nordlander, Library of Congress “The Gulag as a Reinvention of Serfdom in Soviet Russia”

 Modern Slavery: The World, the U. S., and Cuba in Comparative Perspective

• Kevin Bales, University of Surrey Roehampton and Free the Slaves “Testing a Theory of Modern Slavery”
• David Oshinsky, University of Texas “Forced Labor in the 19th Century South: The Story of Parchman Farm”
• Rebecca Scott, University of Michigan “Constraints on Coercion: Labor and Citizenship in Post-Emancipation Cuba and Louisiana” (Abstract)

 Modern Slavery in Africa

• Jeffrey Ferguson, Amherst College “African American Intellectuals and the Liberian Labor Crisis, 1929-31”
• Francis Deng, Brookings Institution “Green is the Color of the Masters: The Legacy of Slavery and the Crisis of National Identity in Modern Sudan”