Saturday, January 4, 9:30–11:30 a.m.

American Historical Association Annual Meeting Sessions

68. Slave Law and Society on the Eve of Emancipation

Hilton, Continental Room C

Chair: F. Andrew McMichael, Princeton University

Papers: "Gradual Extinction" from Below: Slave Amelioration and Society in Barbados, 1823–33
Melanie J. Newton, University of Toronto

Reenslavement and the Civil Law in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
Keila Grinberg, Universidad de Rio de Janeiro

"To grow rich on the spoils of provinces and toils of slaves": Annexation, the Slave Trade, and Emancipation in Louisiana and Cuba, 1858–68
Kevin Roberts, University of Texas at Austin

Comment: Diana Paton, University of Newcastle

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