| Friday, 8 October 2010 |
4.00-
5.00 pm
(Parallel sessions) |
Economy and Society in the Post-Revolutionary Era (Chair: tba) |
| Huw David (University of Oxford) |
“Let me have done with American lands”: Landholding and Atlantic Trade in Post-Revolutionary South Carolina |
| Christopher M. Curtis (Claflin University) |
Transplanting Enclosure: John Taylor of Caroline, George Tucker and Agricultural Reform in Virginia |
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| Evolving and Devolving Racial Politics: Antislavery Tactics and Leaders, 1841-1865 (Chair: tba) |
| Stacey M. Robertson (Bradley University) |
Consuming Morality: Henry Highland Garnet and 1850s Transatlantic Free Produce |
| John W. Quist (Shippensburg University) |
Theodore Foster: An Abolitionist's Uncertain Response to Emancipation |
5:15-
6:15 pm |
Peter Parish Lecture (Chair: Martin Crawford, Keele University) |
| Ian Tyrrell (Universities of Oxford and New South Wales) |
Title tba |
| 6:30 pm |
RECEPTION AND DINNER |
8.45-
9.30pm |
Chair: tba |
| Daniel Sutherland (University of Arkansas) |
Whistler, the Leylands, and Speke Hall |
| Saturday, 9 October 2010 |
| BREAKFAST |
9.00-
10.45 am
(Parallel sessions) |
Remembering Antislavery (Chair: tba) |
| Angela F. Murphy (Texas State University, San Marcos) |
American Abolitionists and the Memory of Daniel O’Connell |
| Beverly Tomek (Wharton County Junior College & University of Houston-Victoria) |
Pennsylvania Hall: Using A “Legal Lynching” To Shape Historical Memory |
| Jewel Spangler (University of Calgary) |
Remembering Slavery Before Emancipation: The Case of Gilbert Hunt, Hero of the Richmond Theatre Fire of 1811 |
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| Southern Urban Histories (Chair: tba) |
| Jonathan Daniel Wells (Temple University) |
Professionalization and the Nineteenth-Century Southern Middle Class |
| Frank Towers (University of Calgary) |
The Southern Path to Modern Cities: Rethinking Urbanization in the Slave States |
| Matthew Ronal Hall (University of Florida) |
Progress and Enterprise: Mass-Consumerism, Local Merchants, and a "Boom-Town" in the post-Reconstruction South |
| COFFEE |
11.15 am-
1.00 pm
(Parallel sessions) |
Resisting Slavery (Chair: tba) |
| James Campbell (University of Leicester) |
From Richmond to Rio: Urban Slave Resistance and Control in Brazil and the United States |
| Lydia Plath (University of Glasgow) |
Rethinking Honour and Class in the Antebellum South |
| Douglas R. Egerton (Le Moyne College) |
The Slaves’ Election: Frémont, Freedom, and the Slave Conspiracies of 1856 |
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| Americans Abroad (Chair: tba) |
| Jonathan Sudbury (University of Oxford) |
A Nest of Dragons: Following the Exploits of an Early 19th c. Yankee Trading Concern from Canton to Chicago, and Several Points Beyond and In Between |
| James D. Miller (Carleton University) |
“A little black America”: Manifest Destiny Goes to Africa |
Daniel Scroop (University of Sheffield) |
A Bigot Abroad? William Jennings Bryan’s 1905-6 World Tour |
| LUNCH 1.00 pm |
| FREE TIME |
| BRANCH AGM 4.00-4.30 pm |
4.30-
5.30 pm
(Parallel sessions) |
Black Women Activists (Chair: tba) |
| Katrina Anderson (University of Delaware) |
Black Women’s Writing and Activism in Antebellum Boston and Philadelphia, 1830-1860 |
| Leigh Fought (Montgomery College) |
Frederick Douglass's 'Lost Sister': Harriet Bailey/Ruth Cox Adams |
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| Politics in the Early National Era (Chair: tba) |
| Daniel Peart (University of London) |
An “Era of No Feelings”? Rethinking the periodization of early American politics |
| Ben Lafferty (University of London) |
Senator William Maclay of Pennsylvania and the early development of the radical tradition |
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5.40-
6.40 pm
(Parallel sessions) |
Enslaved Men and Women (Chair: tba) |
| Sergio Lussana (University of Warwick) |
‘It won’t do, in this world, for a man to deceive his friend’: Enslaved Folklore, Friendship and Masculinity in the Antebellum South |
| Andrea Livesy (University of Liverpool) |
Sexual Interference by the Antebellum Slave Owner in Louisiana as Told by Ex-Slaves in Interviews Conducted in the 1930s |
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| Ordering the Nineteenth-Century American City (Chair: tba) |
| Andrew Heath (University of Sheffield) |
‘A Great City is a Great Study’: Making Sense of the Urban Order in the Civil War-Era American Metropolis |
| Kyle B. Roberts (Queen Mary, University of London) |
Faith in the Antebellum Urban Spatial Order |
| CONFERENCE DINNER 7.00 pm |
8.45-
9.30pm |
Chair: Michael Tadman (University of Liverpool) |
| William Dusinberre (University of Warwick) will discuss his recent research and writing. |
| Sunday, 10 October 2010 |
| BREAKFAST |
9.00-
10.45 am
(Parallel sessions) |
New Roads to Disunion: Reinterpreting the Secession Crisis (Chair: tba) |
| Michael Woods (University of South Carolina) |
‘What Can Preserve Us but Constant Jealousy’: Emotion and Secession in Southern Political Rhetoric, 1827-1861 |
| Amanda Mushal (The Citadel) |
‘A Principle of Honor’: South Carolina’s Commercial Men and the Rhetoric of Secession |
| Lawrence McDonnell (Iowa State University) |
Selling Secession: Political Revolution as Market Economy in Charleston, South Carolina, 1860-1861 |
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| Gender and Status in the Civil War Era (Chair: tba) |
| Rachel Williams (University of Nottingham) |
‘The best of doctors and the gentlest of gentlemen’: A Re-evaluation of the Nurse-Doctor Dynamic in Civil War Hospitals |
| Jennifer Lynn Gross (Jacksonville State University) |
Southerners, the Lost Cause & a ‘Cult of Dead Generals’ Widows’ |
| Allison Fredette (University of Florida) |
Broken Unions: Divorce in the Reconstruction-era Border South |
| COFFEE |
11.15 am-
1.00 pm
(Parallel sessions) |
Race and Freedom in the Antebellum South (Chair: tba) |
| Victoria L. Harrison (Southern Illinois University) |
Conway Barbour and the Parameters of Agency |
| Daniel Hale (University of Reading) |
Executive Clemency in Texas 1849-65 |
| David Dangerfield (University of South Carolina) |
Making A Way: Yeomen Free People of Color in Charleston’s Rural Parishes, 1800-1860 |
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| Anglo-American Relations (Chair: tba) |
| Stephen Tuffnell, (University of Oxford) |
“Our eagle stoops to no small flight”: Diplomacy in Liverpool’s American Expatriate Community, 1801-1861 |
| Neils Eichhorn (University of Arkansas) |
The Trent Affair Revisited: Great Britain and the Rhine River Problem |
| John R. Killick (University of Leeds) |
Merchants and Politics in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain and America: Thomas Cope and William Brown, 1802-1860 |
| LUNCH 1.00 pm |
| Conference disperses. |