The Gilder Lehrman Center’s 17th Annual International Conference

Antislavery Republics: The Politics of Abolition in the Spanish AtlanticThe Gilder Lehrman Center’s 17th Annual International Conference
October 30-31, 2015
 
Luce Hall Auditorium
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT
 
Why and how did slavery end when it did in Spanish America? Slavery expanded in leaps and bounds in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States during the same decades that the new republics of mainland Spanish America professed a commitment to the abolition of slavery and instituted gradual antislavery laws. In large part this was a result of the free and enslaved Africans’ involvement in the independence wars in places such as Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela. This conference will focus on the history of slavery and anti-slavery in the nineteenth century Spanish Atlantic world and probe such hemispheric contrasts and divergences by moving beyond a national or imperial focus that has characterized abolitionist studies. Instead, it will trace the connections of mainland Spanish America with Brazil, Africa, Haiti, Britain, the Spanish Caribbean, and the United States during the nineteenth century. Speakers include:
 
–        Carlos Aguirre, University of Oregon      
–        George Reid Andrews, University of Pittsburgh
–        Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard University
–        Alice Baumgartner, Yale University
–        Herman Bennett, City University of New York
–        Peter Blanchard,  University of Toronto
–        David W. Blight, Yale University
–        Alex Borucki, University of California-Irvine
–        Marcela Echeverri, Yale University
–        Anne Eller, Yale University
–        Roquinaldo Ferreira, Brown University
–        Ada Ferrer, New York University
–        Alejandro Gomez, Université de Lille
–        John Harris, Johns Hopkins University
–        Bayo Holsey, Rutgers University
–        Richard Huzzey, University of Liverpool
–        Rafael Marquese, University of São Paulo
–        Edward Rugemer, Yale University
–        Dale Tomich, University of Binghamton
–        Justin Wolfe, Tulane University
 
Registration is free but required.
 
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of
Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
Yale University
PO Box 208206
New Haven, CT  06520-8206