Fall 2014
September 5
John Blanton (Graduate Center, CUNY)
The Problem of Personhood and the Long English Antislavery Argument
September 26
Michael Crowder (Graduate Center, CUNY)
“No Captain Goes to the Havanna Without Horses or Slaves”: The Pennsylvania Abolition Society’s Slave Trade Litigation, 1788-1807
October 3
Joseph Murphy (Graduate Center, CUNY)
Absolute and Unqualified Divorce: Salmon P. Chase and the Radicalism of the Antislavery Platform
October 17
Mark Boonshoft (The Ohio State University)
The Diplomacy of Dance: French Manners and “Civilized Nationhood,” 1780-1800
October 24
Brian Bouton (Graduate Center, CUNY)
Exposed to All the Solitude and Perils of the Sea: Quaker Mariner Interpretations and Violations of the Faith’s Peace Testimony in the Atlantic World
November 21
Sean Griffin (Graduate Center, CUNY)
“The Genius of Integral Emancipation”: Associationism and Antislavery, 1841—1850
December 5
Alexander Manevitz (New York University)
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December 19
Roy Rogers (Graduate Center, CUNY)
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Spring 2015
February 6
Dr. Benjamin Carp (Brooklyn College, CUNY)
“The Unpleasing Part of the Drama”: Fear, Devastation, and the Civilian Experience of the Revolutionary War
February 19
Dr. David Waldstreicher (Graduate Center, CUNY)
Minstrelization and Nationhood: “Backside Albany,” Backlash, and the Wartime Origins of Blackface Minstrelsy
March 6
Dr. Steven Smith (Providence College)
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March 20
Alisa Wade (Graduate Center, CUNY)
Contested Widowhood: Protecting Elite Women’s Inheritance in Early National New York City
March 27
Dr. Paul Naish (Guttman Community College, CUNY)
“What Shall I Do with my Liberty?”: The Versatile Myth of the Slave who Preferred Bondage to Freedom, 1831-1861
April 17
Christopher Morell (Graduate Center, CUNY)
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April 24
Brian Bouton (Graduate Center, CUNY)
Neither for the Kingdom of Christ, Nor for the Kingdoms of This World: Confessional and Commercial Networks of the Quaker Diaspora in Tension with the British Empire of the Long Eighteenth Century
May 8
Michael Haggerty (Graduate Center, CUNY)
The Devil’s Wheel: Women, Crime, and Government in Nineteenth Century New York
May 15
Nora Slonimsky (Graduate Center, CUNY)
“The Omission of Some Words and the Transporting of Others”: Piracy and Libel in Early Atlantic Copyright
