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Beyond Black and White: Slaveries in the Trans-Appalachian West during the Eighteenth Century

REGION AND NATION IN AMERICAN HISTORIES OF RACE AND SLAVERYOCTOBER 6–9, 2016 • MOUNT VERNON, VIRGINIA

Chair: Sophie White, University of Notre Dame

Michael Goode, Utah Valley University, “Rethinking Slavery on the Pennsylvania Frontier”

Scott Heerman, University of Miami, “Rediscovering Race: Indian and African Slavery in the Illinois Country”

Samantha Seeley, University of Richmond, “Spaces of Freedom: Slavery and Fugitivity North of the Ohio River”

Comment: Eric Hinderaker, University of Utah