Panel 2: Maritime Worlds and Economies in the Caribbean

Carla Gardina Pestana (University of California, Los Angeles), “Learning the Caribbean Seascape” [ View PDF ]

Keith Richards (Tulane University), “Creole Economies and the Illicit Slave Trade in Eastern Cuba, 1662-1691” [ View PDF ]

David Wheat (Michigan State University), “The Maritime Economy of Spanish Jamaica, c.1560-1650” [ View PDF ]

Lisa Lawlor Feller (University of The Bahamas), “Bahamian Islanders on the Maritime Highway: US-Bahamas Connection through Lincoln and Emerson’s Commitment to Antislavery” [ View PDF ]

Nyala Thompson Grunwald (University of Cambridge), “No Man’s Land’: Mangrove lands, waters and the histories of marine zones between Trinidad and Tobago” [View PDF]

Posters Session

Carlyn Barrow (University of the West Indies, Cave Hill), Rebecca Goetz (New York University), and Cleve Scott (University of the West Indies, Cave Hill), “The Sylvester Manor and Constant/Carmichael Plantation Collaboration” [View PDF]

Jade Lindo (University of Warwick/Royal Botanical Gardens Kew), “Tasting Resistance: Breadfruit and the Gendered Politics of Caribbean Food” [View PDF]

Panel 3: Enslaved Labor and Social Reproduction in the Caribbean

Alba Giménez-Sánchez (Tulane University), “Building Black Havana in the Late Seventeenth Century” [ View PDF ]

Mary Draper (Midwestern State University), “Enslaved Pilots and Sea-Lanes in Eighteenth-Century Kingston” [ View PDF ]

Gabriel José Rivera Cotto (Yale University), “Maritime transportation work and slavery in San Juan, Puerto Rico” [ View PDF]

Evelyn Powell Jennings (St. Lawrence University), “Motherly Love and the Business of Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Cuba” [View PDF]

Natália da Silva Perez (Erasmus University Rotterdam), “The Job Market for Wet Nurses in 19th-century Cuba, Pernambuco (Brazil) and Quebec (Canada)” [View PDF]

Panel 4: Marronage and Mobility in the 18th- and 19th-Century Caribbean

Louise Salaün (Sorbonne Université), “Writing a History of Women’s Marronage Based on Plantation Records (Saint-Domingue and Jamaica, 1760s–1780s)” [View PDF]

Felicia J. Fricke (University of Copenhagen), “Fugitive Motherhood: Women Running from Slavery with their Children in the Eastern Caribbean, 1770s-1870s” [View PDF]

Tayzhaun Glover (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign), “They were ‘Anything and everything but field laborers’: Martinican Fugitives and Emancipation in Dominica and St. Lucia, 1833-1848” [View PDF]

Yevan Terrien (University of Oklahoma), “Marronage, Unfreedom, and Customary Rights in Caribbean New Orleans (1760s-1770s)” [View PDF]

Zach Myers (University of Cambridge), “Navigating (Un)Freedom: Mobility and Re-Enslavement in the Southern Caribbean, 1834-1854” [View PDF]

Panel 5: Enslaved Childhood, Gender, and Resistance in the Caribbean

Jenny Shaw (University of Alabama), “From St. Kitts to England: Enslaved Childhood on Land and at Sea in the Britain’s Georgian Empire” [View PDF]

Zakiya Doyle (University of West Indies, Cave Hill), “‘I learned the art of running away to perfection’ – Enslaved children and resistance in Barbados 1780-1834” [View PDF]

Sarah Brokenborough (Tulane University), “Visible Labor, Valued Work: Enslaved Girls’ Needlework on Jamaican Plantations” [View PDF]

Taylar Carty (University of Glasgow), “Amelia Frances and the ‘Wicked Incendiary’: Centering enslaved Black girlhood in Caribbean Resistance” [View PDF]

Panel 6: Enslaved Rebellions and Empire in the Caribbean

Justin Pope (Missouri University of Science and Technology), “The St John Slave Rebellion of 1733, or The Last Stand of an African Empire in the Americas” [View PDF]

Graham Kerr (Royal Navy), “The Royal Navy and the Apparatus of Imperial Enslavement in Jamaica, 1729–1740” [View PDF]

Maria Alessandra Bollettino (Framingham State University), “Black Sons of Hydra”: The Imperial Legacies of the 1730s First Maroon War in Jamaica” [View PDF]

Gelien Matthews (University of West Indies, St Augustine) “Antislavery Rebellions and Imperial Transitions in the British Caribbean, 1816-1831” [View PDF]

Panel 7: Caribbean Trajectories of Enslavement I: From the Middle Passage to Family and Freedom

Philippa Hellawell (Lloyd’s Register Foundation), “Anatomy of a slave ship: The Trimmer (1765) and its Caribbean trajectories” [This paper will not be precirculated.]

Liberty Patterson (Lloyd’s Register Foundation), “Ships to shores: tracing enslaved histories from West Africa to Grenada and Jamaica (1771-1785)” [This paper will not be precirculated.]

Fara Dabhoiwala (Princeton University), “Race, Slavery, and Citizenship in the early 18th-century Anglo-Atlantic World: The Williams Family of Jamaica” [View PDF]

Hannah Katharina Hjorth (University of Copenhagen), “Claiming Kinship, Claiming Freedom: Entanglements of Family, Kinship and Freedom Seeking in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas 1780-1810” [View PDF]

Panel 8: Caribbean Trajectories of Enslavement II: Claiming Freedom, Shaping Rights?

Ramona Negrón (KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies), “‘An Irreparable Evil: Half Slavery and Half Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Guianas” [View PDF]

Tessa Murphy (Syracuse University), “Expanding the Archive of Maronnage: A glimpse from Slave Registers in St. Lucia & Trinidad, 1813-1833” [View PDF]

Mary-Anne Nicolaas (KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies et University of Amsterdam), “New citizens, old rights? The introduction of the citizen register in Suriname, 1816-1863” [View PDF]

Adriana Chira (Emory University), “‘Somos precariato del estado’: Communal land ownership in Cuba in the long nineteenth century” [View PDF]

Panel 9: From Slavery to Freedom: Labor Regimes, Land, and Legal Transformations

Giulio Talini (University of Turin), “Une république de cultivateurs: Freedom, Land, and Abolition in Revolutionary Saint-Domingue (1793-1794)” [View PDF]

Marvin Chochotte (Dartmouth College), “Inheriting Subdivided Land after the Haitian Revolution: Moral Labor and Family Héritage, 1804-1915” [View PDF]

Gad Heuman (University of Warwick), “The Apprenticeship System in the Caribbean: The World of the Enslavers” [View PDF]

Ida L. Vos (Erasmus University Rotterdam), “Gender in Discussions about Free Womb in Spanish Parliament, 1811-1870” [View PDF]

Panel 10: The Carceral Caribbean: Labor, Ideology, and Resistance Across Imperial Lines

Estherine Adams (University of Guyana), “The Other Unfree Labour: Prison Work in Post-Emancipation British Guiana” [View PDF]

Ale Pålsson (Uppsala University), “Labor ideology, incarceration and interimperial policing in post-emancipation Swedish St Barthélemy” [View PDF]

Kiran Mehta (University of Leicester), “‘An Object of Fear’: Prison Labour and Colonial Violence in the nineteenth-century British Empire” [View PDF]

Liz Egan (University of Warwick), “The Story of a West Indian Policeman: Writing race and justice in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Jamaican Constabulary Force” [View PDF]

Jonathan Nash (College of Saint Benedict & Saint John’s University), “Unruly Confinement: Resistance and the Fragility of Incarceration in the Colonial Bahamas, 1950s-1970s” [View PDF]