Enslaved Labor in the Early Chesapeake: Transformations and Approaches

Chair: April Hatfield, Texas A&M University

Lorena Walsh, “Three Generations of Violence: Labor Discipline on Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake Plantations”

John Coombs, Hampden-Sydney College, “‘The major part of the Negros speak English’: The Conversion to Slavery in the Early Chesapeake and the Formation of African-American Culture”

Erica Cavanaugh, Research Editor, The Washington Papers, “The Exploration of New Tools for the Research and Study of Slavery Using George Washington’s Ledgers and Data Visualizations”

Comment: Holly Brewer, University of Maryland