Precirculated Paper Sessions

2010 Annual Meeting

Precirculated paper sessions are one of the ways the AHA attempts to increase audience participation and discussion at the Annual Meeting. These sessions are organized around presentations (papers, PowerPoint, text from online) and made available online for audience members to access and read before the Annual Meeting. Follow the links below to the diverse range of precirculated paper sessions at the 124th Annual Meeting in San Diego.

Precirculated Paper Sessions

 

The Sea Changes of Early Modern Worlds
AHA Session 22
Thursday, January 7, 2010: 3:00 PM-5:00 PM
Manchester Ballroom B (Hyatt)

Chair: Antonio Barrera-Osorio, Colgate University

Papers:

  • The Caribbean as Archipelago
    April Lee Hatfield, Texas A&M University

  • A Tale of Two Oceans: Expansion and Transformation in the Early Modern Dutch World
    Wim Klooster, Clark University

  • The Oceanic Challenges of the Spanish World
    Carla Rahn Phillips, University of Minnesota

  • Oceans on Maps: Cartographers, Artists, and the Depiction of Oceans in the Sixteenth Century
    Alida C. Metcalf, Rice University

 

 

Slaving Paths: Rebuilding and Rethinking the Atlantic Worlds, Part 1:
Mirages of Freedom in Atlantic Post-Slave Societies
AHA Session 35
Thursday, January 7, 2010: 3:00 PM-5:00 PM
Manchester Ballroom F (Hyatt)

Chair: Walter W. Hawthorne, Michigan State University

Commentator: Martin Klein, University of Toronto

Papers:

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Slaving Paths: Rebuilding and Rethinking the Atlantic Worlds, Part 2:
Slavery, Migration, and Resistance: Atlantic Perspectives and Interactions
AHA Session 69
Friday, January 8, 2010: 9:30 AM-11:30 AM
Manchester Ballroom F (Hyatt)

Chair: Sharla M. Fett, Occidental College

Commentator: Rosanne M. Adderley, Tulane University

Papers:

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Slaving Paths: Rebuilding and Rethinking the Atlantic Worlds, Part 3:
Gender, Family, and Race in the British and French Caribbean
AHA Session 104
Friday, January 8, 2010: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Manchester Ballroom F (Hyatt)

Chair: Wendy Wilson Fall, Kent State University

Commentator: Lorelle D. Semley, Wesleyan University
Papers:

  • Status, Race, and Marriage: French Continental Law versus French Colonial Law
    Valérie Gobert-Sega, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

  • Intimacy and the Atlantic World
    Jennifer L. Palmer, University of Chicago

  • Patterns of Mixed-Race Migration to Britain in the Eighteenth-Century Black Atlantic
    Daniel Livesay, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

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Slaving Paths: Rebuilding and Rethinking the Atlantic Worlds, Part 4:
The Root: Redrawing the Boundaries of Freedom
AHA Session 136
Saturday, January 9, 2010: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM
Manchester Ballroom F (Hyatt)

Chair: James H. Sweet, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Commentator: Jane G. Landers, Vanderbilt University

Papers:

  • Black Female Networks of Property and Commerce in the French Atlantic World
    Jessica Marie Johnson, University of Maryland at College Park

  • Color, Status, and the Discourse of Public Rights in Eighteenth-Century Lima, Peru
    Tamara J. Walker, University of Pennsylvania

  • “What Looks like Revolutionary”: Re-thinking the "Rank and File" in Cuba's Slave Resistance Movement of 1844
    Aisha K. Finch, University of California, Los Angeles

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Brazilian Revolutionaries and Transoceanic Experiences
AHA Session 159
Conference on Latin American History 29
Saturday, January 9, 2010: 11:30 AM-1:30 PM
Manchester Ballroom I (Hyatt)

Chair: Judy Bieber, University of New Mexico

Commentator: Bryan McCann, Georgetown University

Papers:

  • Political Militancy as Ethnic Identity in Brazil, 1960–80
    Jeffrey Lesser, Emory University

  • A Brazilian Exiled in Angola: Maria do Carmo Brito, 1976–77
    Jerry Davila, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

  • The International Dimension of Ação Libertadora Nacional
    Kenneth P. Serbin, University of San Diego

  • Um Estágio na Fábrica: Understanding a Carioca Student's Path to Revolution, 1974–79
    Natan Zeichner, New York University

 

 

Slaving Paths: Rebuilding and Rethinking the Atlantic Worlds, Part 5:
Atlantic Images: Representations of Slavery and Africans
AHA Session 171
Saturday, January 9, 2010: 11:30 AM-1:30 PM
Manchester Ballroom F (Hyatt)

Chair: Edward A. Alpers, University of California, Los Angeles

Commentator: Elizabeth W. Kiddy, Albright College

Papers:

  • Picturing Homes and Border Crossings: The Slavery Trope in Films of the Black Atlantic
    Gunja Sengupta, Brooklyn College, City University of New York; Awam Amkpa, New York University

  • Hidden Beneath the Surface: Atlantic Slavery in Winslow Homer's Gulf Stream
    Peter H. Wood, Duke University

  • History, Reconstruction, Circulation: Slavery in Cuban Cinematography
    Silvina Testa, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique

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Slaving Paths: Rebuilding and Rethinking the Atlantic Worlds, Part 6:
North and South: Comparative Perspectives on Slavery and Abolition in Brazil and the United States
AHA Session 204
Saturday, January 9, 2010: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Manchester Ballroom F (Hyatt)

Chair: Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard University

Commentator: Joseph C. Miller, University of Virginia

Papers:

  • The Death Penalty, Slavery, and Abolition in Brazil and the United States 1830–1900
    Peter M. Beattie, Michigan State University

  • “The Ship of Slavery”: Atlantic Slave Trade Suppression, Liberated Africans, and Black Abolition Politics in Antebellum New York
    Sharla M. Fett, Occidental College

  • In the Confines of the Empire: Trajectories of Liberated Africans in Nineteenth-Century Amazonia
    Patricia Sampaio, Universidade Federal do Amazonas

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Slaving Paths: Rebuilding and Rethinking the Atlantic Worlds, Part 7:
Enslaved Africans and Commodities During the Era of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
AHA Session 238
 Sunday, January 10, 2010: 8:30 AM-10:30 AM
Manchester Ballroom F (Hyatt)

Chair: Linda M. Heywood, Boston University

Commentator: Luiz Felipe Alencastro, Université de Paris IV - Sorbonne

Papers:

  • New England Merchants and the Circum-Caribbean Slave Trade
    Jennifer Anderson, Stony Brook University

  • Brown Rice in Maranhão and the Larger Atlantic
    Walter W. Hawthorne, Michigan State University

  • Martinique, Montreal, Rhode Island: Patterns in the Transnational Circulation and Consumption of French Caribbean Rum and Molasses
    Bertie Mandelblatt, Université de Montréal

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Slaving Paths: Rebuilding and Rethinking the Atlantic Worlds, Part 8:
Enslaved Africans and Creoles: Reassessing Identities and Interactions
AHA Session 271
Sunday, January 10, 2010: 11:00 AM-1:00 PM
Manchester Ballroom F (Hyatt)

Chair: Lorelle D. Semley, Wesleyan University

Commentator: Linda M. Heywood, Boston University

Papers:

  • The Coastal Origins of Slaves Leaving West Central Africa, c.1780–1867
    Daniel B. Domingues da Silva, Emory University

  • From Ladinos to “Atlantic Creoles”: African Perspectives from the Spanish Caribbean, c.1570–1640
    David Wheat, Michigan State University

  • "All We Want Is Make Us Free"? The Voyage of Amistad's Children through the Worlds of the Illegal Slave Trade
    Benjamin N. Lawrance, University of California, Davis

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