Paper Abstracts
Emancipation and Politics
- Kate Masur, Northwestern University, West Point and the Problem of Equality
- Chandra Manning, Georgetown University, Will Work for Citizenship
- Brandi C. Brimmer, University of Maryland, College Park, Recovering the Political Vision of Poor Black Women in the Late-Nineteenth Century South
Emancipation and Ideology
- Dylan C. Penningroth, Northwestern University, Beasts and Blood: Legacies of Slavery in Colonial Ghana
- Susan Eva O’Donovan, University of Memphis, Writing Slavery into Freedom’s Story: Mobility and Messages in the Late Antebellum South
- Allyson Hobbs, Stanford University, “A Grave Social Question Has Arisen”: Interracial Encounters and Racial Identity in Reconstruction-Era Washington, D.C
Emancipation and Borders
- Sandra Gunning, University of Michigan, The Deadly Voyage of the Allanshaw: Rebellion, Indenture, and Sex Across the Indian and Atlantic Oceans
- Jim Downs, Connecticut College, Contraband Camps and Indian Reservations: Federal Authority Beyond the Reconstruction South
- Steven Hahn, University of Pennsylvania, The South, the West, and the Imperial State
Emancipation and Violence
- Carole Emberton, SUNY Buffalo, The Militarization of Freedom
- Hannah Rosen, University of Michigan, Writing the History of Postemancipation Violence
- Justin Behrend, SUNY Geneseo, Overthrowing Local Democracies: The Political Geography of Reconstruction Violence in the Natchez District
Concluding Roundtable: New Directions in the Field
- Greg Downs, City College of New York, Emancipated into the Necessary, Impossible Arms of the State: Governance and the Limits of Liberation