Papers

• Herbert S. Klein, Stanford University, “The Free Afro Brazilians in a Slave Society”
• Roquinaldo Ferreira, University of Virginia, “Atlantic Microhistory: Slaving and Cultural Exchange in Angola (ca.1700-ca.1850)”
• Mariana P. Candido, Princeton University, “South Atlantic Exchanges: The Role of Brazilian Born Agents in Benguela, 1650-1850”

• Mary C. Karasch, Oakland University, “Contructing Communities: The Black and Pardo Brotherhoods of Central Brazil” Paper (Portuguese)
• Douglas C. Libby, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, “Conditions and Colors: Representational Identities and Afro-Brazilians in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Minas Gerais”
• João José Reis, Universidade Federal Bahia, “Ethnic Identity in the 1835 Rebellion in Bahia”

Forms of Resistance/Slavery and the Law

• Silvia Hunold Lara, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, “Palmares and Cucaú: Political Dimensions of a Maroon Community in Late Seventeenth-Century Brazil”
• Keila Grinberg, Universidade do Rio de Janeiro, “Slavery, Frontier and the Law in South America’s Nineteenth-Century South (Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina)” 
• Matthias Röhrig Assunção, University of Essex, “Capoeira: A Creole Martial Art”

• Beatriz G. Mamigonian, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, “Building the Nation, Selecting Memories: Vitor Meireles, the Christie Affair and Brazilian Slavery in the 1860s”
• Jeffrey D. Needell, University of Florida, “Brazil’s Abolitionist Movement: The Remembered, the Forgotten”
• Angela Alonso, Universidade de São Paulo, “The Theatralization of Politics: the Brazilian Abolitionist Propaganda”