"Unhappy People, Already Deluded by His Base and Insidious Arts": Slavery and Loyalty in the Atlantic World

AHA Session 263
Sunday, January 6, 2019: 11:00 AM-12:30 PM
Continental A (Hilton Chicago, Lobby Level)
Chair:
Liam Riordan, University of Maine

Session Abstract

The panel will explore the Atlantic dimension of “loyalty” and “disloyalty” within slavery. Did such notions of allegiance look the same as that given by (or expected from) free people? Did the loyalty that enslaved people imagined for themselves and their families coincide with the cultural expectation of their enslavers?
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