53. Sources, Archives, and Interpretations: Recovering the History
of Black Abolitionism
Friday, January 7, 2:30–4:30 p.m.
Convention Center, Room 617
Chair: David
W. Blight, Yale University
Papers: The Literature of History: Using Black Writing to Tell
the Story of Abolition
Timothy Patrick McCarthy, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
The Archival Tradition in Black Abolitionist Historiography
Manisha Sinha, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Boston's Black Abolitionists and Dilemmas of Civil War Manhood
Stephen Kantrowitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison