Sunday, January 5, 8:30–10:30 a.m.

American Historical Association Annual Meeting Sessions

124. Southern Invention: Explorations in Early American Entrepreneurship, Economy, and Identity

Palmer House, Monroe Ballroom

Chair: Peter Coclanis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Papers: A Flexible Form: The Transformation of Lowcountry Plantations, 1670–1785
S. Max Edelson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Fermenting Failures: Alcoholic Beverages, Planters, and Power in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake
Sarah Hand Meacham, University of Virginia

Entrepreneurship, Identity, and Economic Development in Eighteenth-Century Virginia
Laura Croghan Kamoie, American University

Stephen Duncan, American Planter: Slavery, Entrepreneurship, and the Construction of Identities
Martha Jane Brazy, University of South Alabama

Comment: Peter Coclanis

   

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