10:45-11:45, Slavery and Race Taught and Commemorated
Session 2A: Slavery in the Atlantic World During the Age of Revolution
Location: Commons Room
Charles R. Foy, Eastern Illinois University (emeritus), “Using the Black
Mariners’ Database (BMD) to Illustrate the Shape of Freedom in the
Eighteenth-Century Atlantic.”
Andre J. Beliveau, University of Sheffield, “Loyal Freedom: The Impact of Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation on the Black Freedom Struggle.”
Moderated by Richard D. Brown (University of Connecticut, History Faculty emeritus)
Session 2B: Origins of Slavery and the Uses of the Past
Location: Adams Theater
Dan Hodgson, Avon Old Farms School, “History in the Writing of Ross Gay.”
David Porteous, Independent Scholar, “Slavery in the USA: a Succinct
Summary of Its Roots and Branches.”
Moderated by Weston Stephens and AOF student Wyatt Weekes and Chris Zhang
Session 2C: How to Remember Slavery
Location: Tiernan Room
Dennis Culliton, Witness Stones Project, Guilford, Connecticut, “The Witness Stones Project and the Grassroots Commemoration of Slavery in Connecticut.”
Matt Kowalchick, “The Life and Legacy of Robert Smalls”
Moderated by Brian Cugell and AOF student Akil Smart
Session 2D: Racism and Civil Rights 100 Years Ago: Lessons from the Early-20th Century
Location: Brown Auditorium
Barbra Mann Wall, Thomas A. Saunders III Professor of Nursing, University of Virginia, “Reinterpreting History Beyond Whiteness: the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921.”
Christopher Bolster, University of Connecticut, “Between the Worlds of
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois.”
Moderated by Chris Doyle and AOF students James Wilborn, Akil Smart