2016/2017
Antislavery Sentiments and Experiences of African-Canadians During the Civil War Era
Wednesday, September 14th, 2016 - Mathias Rodorff, University of Munich
‘Lord Until I Reach My Home’: Inside the Refugee Camps of the American Civil War
Wednesday, September 28th, 2016 - Abigail Cooper, Brandeis University
Fair Trade Freedom: The Moral Economy of Low Wage Women’s Work in the Global Anti-Trafficking Movement
Wednesday, October 12th, 2016 - Elena Shih, Brown University
Defining Postemancipation: Jamaica and the British Empire after the Morant Bay Rebellion
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016 - Christienna Fryar, SUNY Buffalo State
Strange Amalgamation and General Confusion’: Party Realignment as Racial Realignment in the Civil War Era
Wednesday, November 16th, 2016 - Josh Lynn, Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions
Antislavery Sentiments and Other Socio-Racial Sensibilities in the Spanish Atlantic, 1780-1854
Wednesday, December 7th, 2016 - Alejandro E. Gómez, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris
Flowers, Ballots, and Bullets: the Brazilian Abolitionist Movement
Wednesday, January 25th, 2017 - Angela Alonso, University of São Paulo, Brazil
The Wickedest City in America: Sex, Race, and Organized Crime in the Jim Crow South
Wednesday, February 8th, 2017 - Tammy Ingram, College of Charleston
Follow the North Star to Canada’: Draft Resisters and the Underground Railroad, 1968-1976
Wednesday, February 15th, 2017 - Wendell Adjetey, Yale University
Enslaved Girlhoods: Gendering Terror, Human Trafficking, and Human Security
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2017 - Wendy Hesford, Ohio State University
Race, Migration, and Removal in the Early United States Republic
Wednesday, March 29th, 2017 - Samantha Seeley, Univ. of Richmond
The Pirates, the Judge, and the Amistad Trial; or How the Panda Slavers May Have Determined the Fate of the Amistad Africans
Wednesday, April 12th, 2017 - Manuel Barcia, University of Leeds
Reconstruction in the World: Race, Empire & the Diplomatic Mission in the Post-Civil War Era
Wednesday, April 26th, 2017 - Erik Mathisen, Queen Mary University of London