North of Failure: Unmaking Slavery in the Mid-Atlantic

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Beyond Black and White: Slaveries in the Trans-Appalachian West during the Eighteenth Century North of Failure: Unmaking Slavery in the Mid-Atlantic Women and the Economy of Slavery in Early America Universities and Histories of Race and Enslaved Labor Indian Slavery/Slaveries in early Eastern North America Intellectual and Legal Constructions of Race Cities, Sovereignties, and Religious Orders in the Study of Slavery Enslaved Labor in the Early Chesapeake: Transformations and Approaches
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REGION AND NATION IN AMERICAN HISTORIES OF RACE AND SLAVERY OCTOBER 6–9, 2016 • MOUNT VERNON, VIRGINIA

Chair: Antonio Bly, Appalachian State University

David Gellman, DePauw University, “Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: The Founders and Slavery—A Regionalist Revision”

Sarah Gronningsater, California Institute of Technology, “A Generational Perspective of the Long Emancipation”

Paul Polgar, University of Mississippi, “Freedom Local: Enacting Black Liberty in the Early National Mid-Atlantic”

Comment: Manisha Sinha, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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