123rd Annual Meeting (January 2 - 5, 2009): Black Women and the Post-Emancipation State in North America and the British Caribbean

Black Women and the Post-Emancipation State in North America and the British Caribbean

AHA Session 94

Saturday, January 3, 2009: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM

Riverside Ballroom (Sheraton New York)

Chair:

Jacqueline Jones, University of Texas at Austin

Papers:

Ideal Workers and Citizens: Race, Gender, and Immigrant Recruitment in the Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century South
Melanie R. Shell-Weiss, Johns Hopkins University

Seizing Citizenship: African American Women and the Struggle for Rights and Inclusion
Brandi Brimmer, Vanderbilt University

“She states that she is treated very kindly”? Free African Women and Colonial Employers in the Abolition-Era British Caribbean
Rosanne Adderley, Vanderbilt University

Comment:

Susan E. O'Donovan, Harvard University

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