New Departures and Enduring Questions in Atlantic Slavery Studies: A State-of-the-Field Review of New Scholarship
AHA Session 317
Monday, January 6, 2025: 11:00 AM-12:30 PM
Mercury Ballroom (New York Hilton, Third Floor)
Chair:
Christopher L. Brown, Columbia University
Panel:
Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard University
Randy M. Browne, Xavier University
Mary Hicks, University of Chicago
Seth E. Rockman, Brown University
Anne Ruderman, London School of Economics and Political Science
Randy M. Browne, Xavier University
Mary Hicks, University of Chicago
Seth E. Rockman, Brown University
Anne Ruderman, London School of Economics and Political Science
Session Abstract
The field of Atlantic slavery studies interrogates the structures of power that organize the modern world, while recovering the political imaginaries and resistive practices of African and African-descended people living under the most extreme forms of exploitation. The field is more in dialogue with its twentieth-century intellectual progenitors than ever before, while historians are also summoned toward increased interdisciplinarity, expanded geographies, and self-reflective practices of research and narration. The presidency of Thavolia Glymph makes the 2025 AHA Annual Meeting a particularly opportune moment to evaluate recent scholarship in relation to the defining characteristics of her own award-winning contributions to the field: attention to slavery as a system of labor relations embedded in broader economic structures; the gendered intimacies of violence and coercion; and the politics of everyday life and labor when possibilities for emancipation loom on the horizon.
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