124th Annual Meeting (January 7-10, 2010): Slaving Paths: Rebuilding and Rethinking the Atlantic Worlds, Part 1: Mirages of Freedom in Atlantic Post-Slave Societies

Slaving Paths: Rebuilding and Rethinking the Atlantic Worlds, Part 1: Mirages of Freedom in Atlantic Post-Slave Societies

AHA Session 35

Thursday, January 7, 2010: 3:00 PM-5:00 PM

Manchester Ballroom F (Hyatt)

Chair:

Walter W. Hawthorne, Michigan State University

Papers:

Encounter and Exchange: Conflicting Interests in Sierra Leone in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century
Suzanne Schwarz, Liverpool Hope University

New Africans in the Post-Slavery French West Indies, 1857–89: What Encounters?
Céline Flory, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

"The Ashburton Capitulation": The Convention of London, British Defeat, and the Americanization of the Atlantic, c. 1842
Steven Heath Mitton, Utah State University

From Migrant to Litigant: Emigration to Liberia in Court Cases in the U.S. South
Melissa L. Milewski, New York University

Comment:

Martin Klein, University of Toronto

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