Panel #1: Archives and the Construction of Knowledge

Philip D. Morgan, Johns Hopkins University, “The Slave Population on St. Croix, Danish West Indies, in the Abolitionist Era”
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Carla Pestana, Miami University, “Selfish Spaniards, Industrious English: Imagining an English Jamaica”
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Roderick A. McDonald, Rider University, “Slavery and Emancipation in the Caribbean:  Manuscript Sources and Interpretive Opportunities in Scottish Archives and Libraries”
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Anne Lebel, Archives départementales de la Guadeloupe, “Saint-Barthélemy et ses Archives : Une Connaissance Historique Éclatée”
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Panel #2: New approaches to Slavery, Trading, and Community Networks in the Early Modern Spanish Caribbean

Molly Warsh, Texas A&M University/Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, “Luxury, Sustenance, Supply: Dependence and Independence along the Venezuelan Pearl Coast, c.1500-c.1650”
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Pablo Gomez, Texas Christian University, “Early Modern Black Links: Itinerant Healing Rites in the Spanish Caribbean”
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Elena Andrea Schneider, Princeton University, “Routes of Slavery and Freedom: The ‘Negro Inglés’ in Eighteenth-century Cuba”
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Panel #3: Slavery and Abolition in the Circum-Caribbean

Edward Rugemer, Yale University, “The Political Foundation for a Second Slavery: The Difference between Jamaica and South Carolina, 1787-1810”
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Patrick Rael, Bowdoin College, “Making Revolution: Free African Americans in the Antebellum North and the  Meaning of Caribbean Slavery”
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J. Adelaïde, Societe d’Histoire de la Guadeloupe, “Un prêtre anti-esclavagiste en Guadeloupe à la veille de l’abolition de 1848: l’Abbé du goujon”
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Maria Margarita Flores-Collazo, Universidad de Puerto Rico, “The Morant Bay Rebellion: A View from the Spanish Abolitionist Perspective”
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Panel #4: Haiti and its Repercussions

Ronald Angelo Johnson, Texas State University, “Revolution and Relocation: The Haitian Effect on Atlantic Colonization and Migration”
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Philippe R. Girard, McNeese State University, “Mass Deportations of Caribbean Rebels from Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Saint-Domingue in 1802”
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Matthew Smith, University of the West Indies, Mona, “The Price of Exile: Jamaica and the Salomon Presidency in Nineteenth-Century Haiti”
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Panel #5: Caribbean Crossings: Historical Approaches to the Study of Port Cities

Kathleen López, Rutgers University, “Chinese Migration and Exclusion in the Circum-Caribbean World”
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José Amador, Miami University, “Disease, Crime, and Immigration: Regulating the Port Cities in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba”
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Laurie Wood, University of Texas, Austin, “Francophone Families in the Colonial Caribbean: A Regional Approach”
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Panel #6: The Formation and Re-Shaping of Caribbean Identity

Melanie Newton, University of Toronto, “Slaves and ‘Natives’ in the Early Modern British Caribbean”
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César Augusto Salcedo Chirinos, Interamericana de Puerto Rico, Recinto Metro, “’Bajo tu amparo nos acogemos’:  Creencias, comportamientos y epidemias en Puerto Rico, 1855”
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Evelyn Jennings, St. Lawrence University, “A Cuban Family in New York: Cuba-US Migration and Transnational Identities”
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María del Carmen Baerga, Universidad de Puerto Rico, “The Complicated Terrain of Alternative Sexualities: Sodomites in the Palacio de Santa Catalina, 1675”
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Panel #7: The Relationship between Caribbean Literature and History

Ruth Margarita García-Pantaleón, Universidad de Puerto Rico, “El desvalijo del otro: discursos literarios y coloniales sobre identidades negras en la Isla de San Juan Bautista 1530-1588”
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Danielle Begot, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, “Cœurs créoles de Gilbert de Chambertrand (1958):  l’histoire dans les plis de la littérature”
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K. Simeon Jones, University of South Florida, “Aimé Césaire’s Triad Plays: The Literary Interpretation of Caribbean History”
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Rafael Ocasio, Agnes Scott College, “Humanizing Slaves in a Cuban Ingenio: Black Laborers in Costumbrista Articles by Anselmo Suárez y Romero”
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José G. Rigau-Pérez, Independent Researcher, “The Transcendental Tourist: The Journal of Edward Emerson  in St. Croix, St. Thomas and Puerto Rico, 1831-1832”
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Panel #8: Religion in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Gerard LeFleur, Société d’histoire de la Guadeloupe, “Religion des esclaves en Guadeloupe et dépendances de 1802 à 1848”
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Sherry-Ann Singh, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, “Trinidad Hinduism: Negotiating Landscape, Ideology and Practice”
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Glenn O. Phillips, Morgan State University, “The Quest for Identity and Social Standing of Early Seventh-day Adventists in Barbados, 1908-1939”
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Juan José Baldrich, Universidad de Puerto Rico, “The Hermanos Cheos: Religious Resistance to Market Forces in Puerto Rican Agriculture, 1898-1937”
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Panel #9: Natural Disasters and Caribbean Responses

Stuart Schwartz, Yale University, “Love in a Time of Hurricane: Puerto Rico 1928-1932”
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Matthew Mulcahy, Loyola University, Maryland, “Beyond the Earthquake: The Port Royal Fire of 1703”
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Terencia K. Joseph, University of the Southern Caribbean, “The Storm before the Calm: The 1898 Hurricane and Official Responses, Saint Lucia”
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Panel #10: Family and Child-Rearing in Caribbean Contexts

David Stark, Grand Valley State University, “A Self-Sustaining Slave Population: Demographic Evidence from Arecibo, Puerto Rico (1708-1791)”
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Sasha Turner, Quinnipiac University, “Labour, pregnancy and childbearing in Jamaica, 1788-1807”
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Armando Garcia, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, “Constructing the Cuban Nation-State through Global History Narratives for Children: José Martí’s La Edad de Oro”
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Panel #11: Food, Family and Frustration: British Views of the Planter Class in the Long Eighteenth Century

Gelien Matthews, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, “Sex across the Colour Line: The Sexual Relations of White Women with Non-White Males in the British West Indies during Slavery”
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Judith Jennings, Kentucky Foundation for Women, “British or West Indian?: A Case Study of Thomas Hibbert and Jane Harry”
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Daniel Livesay, Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture, “Louisa Calderon and the Closing Door of Racial Accommodation in Nineteenth-Century Britain”
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Christer Petley, University of Southampton, “Hospitality and Gluttony in the Transatlantic Conflict over British-Caribbean Slavery”
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Panel #12: Scientific and Corporeal Knowledge in the Early Caribbean

Justin Roberts, Dalhousie University, “Clock Work: Time, Numeracy and Enlightenment Science in British West-Indian Plantation Management, 1750-1807”
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Jessica Luther, University of Texas, Austin, “Using Durer to Make Sense of the Enslaved:
English Scientific Ideas in the Early Caribbean”
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Eric Otremba, University of Minnesota, “Engines and Canes: Caribbean Sugar Mills Within
Transatlantic Scientific Correspondence”
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Claire Gherini, Johns Hopkins University, “Old Sharper’s Cure: Thomas Thistlewood and the Afro-English Economy of Lay Healing in Mid Eighteenth-Century Jamaica”
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Panel #13: Patterns and Policies of Social Regulation

Aminah Wallace, Binghamton University, “Social Regulation in the Age of Slavery”
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Jonathan Dalby, University of the West Indies, Mona, “’A Hell of a Muderation:’ Patterns of
Homicide in Nineteenth-Century Jamaica”
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Clara Palmiste, Université des Antilles Guyane, “Les sociétés secrètes aux Antilles françaises dans la tourmente de Vichy”
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Jill Briggs, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Venereal Disease in 1930s Jamaica: Moral Panic and a Case of Mistaken Identity”
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Panel #15: Tobacco, the ‘Other’ Commodity: The Insular and Circum-Caribbean

Arturo Bird Carmona, Universidad Interamericana, “The Struggle to Control the Struggle: The ‘Of Leibors’ versus the ‘Tabaqueros Tropicales’”
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Joaquín Viloria De la Hoz, Banco de la República, Colombia, “‘Tabaco del Carmen’: The Tobacco Economy of the Colombian Caribbean during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century”
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Jean Stubbs, University of London, “Trans-Caribbean Networks and Knowledge Transfer: The Havana Cigar, 1850-2010”
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Panel #16: Health and Health-Care in the Caribbean

Sandra M. Fabregas Troche and Miriam C. Lugo Colon, Universidad de Puerto Rico, “Perspective Historica de la Institucionalization de las Profesiones de Salud en Puerto Rico durante el periodo Espaniol”
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Winnifred Connerton, University of Pennsylvania, “Working Toward Health, Christianity and Democracy: American Colonial and Missionary Nurses in Puerto Rico, 1900-1917”
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Jacques Dumont, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, Sylvain Ferez, Université Montpellier,  and Kirsten Beukenkamp, Lexisnexis Intelligence, “Leprosy and AIDS: An Unexpected Continuity in the French West Indies”
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https://associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/conferencepapers2011/Panel 17: Digital Sources for the Study of Caribbean History

Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Michigan State University, “The Atlantic World Slave Data Network”
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Nadine Hunt, York University, “Research Activism and the Creation of Digital Archives in the Caribbean”
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Brooke Woolridge, Florida International University, “The Digital Library of the Caribbean: A New Model for Library Collaboration”
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